A mathematical introduction to conformal field theory /
The first part of this book gives a detailed, self-contained and mathematically rigorous exposition of classical conformal symmetry in n dimensions and its quantization in two dimensions. In particular, the conformal groups are determined and the appearence of the Virasoro algebra in the context of...
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| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; New York :
Springer,
[1997]
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| Series: | Lecture notes in physics. Monographs ;
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- I. Mathematical Preliminaries: Conformal Transformations and Conformal Killing Fields
- The Conformal Group
- Central Extensions of Groups
- Central Extensions of Lie Algebras and Bargmann's Theorem
- The Virasoro Algebra
- II. First Steps Towards Conformal Field Theory
- Projective Representations of Diff+ (S) and More
- String Theory as a Conformal Field Theory
- Foundations of Two-Dimensional Conformal Quantum Field Theory
- Mathematical Aspects of the Verlinde Formula
- References
- Index.