
handle: 11245/1.127576
Summary: An elementary introduction to conformal field theory is given. Topics include free bosons and fermions, orbifolds, affine Lie algebras, coset conformal field theories, superconformal theories, correlation functions on the sphere, partition functions and modular invariance.
correlation functions, conformal invariance, modular invariance, Applications of Lie (super)algebras to physics, etc., Virasoro and related algebras, Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, \(W\)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations, superconformal theories, conformal field theory, Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics, Kac-Moody (super)algebras; extended affine Lie algebras; toroidal Lie algebras, Virasoro algebra, Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics, orbifolds, affine Lie algebras, partition functions
correlation functions, conformal invariance, modular invariance, Applications of Lie (super)algebras to physics, etc., Virasoro and related algebras, Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, \(W\)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations, superconformal theories, conformal field theory, Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics, Kac-Moody (super)algebras; extended affine Lie algebras; toroidal Lie algebras, Virasoro algebra, Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics, orbifolds, affine Lie algebras, partition functions
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