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Vertex algebras for beginners

By Victor Kac , Victor . Kac

Book information

Publisher
American Mathematical Society
Year
1997
ISBN
0821806432, 9780821806432
ISSN
1047-3998
LCC
QC174.52.O6 K33 1997
Open Library ID
OL997047M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
1 MB (1088635 bytes)
Series
University lecture series 10
Pages
82\82
Topic
Education
Library
kolxoz
DPI
300
Scanned
landscape
Time added
2009-07-20 03:45:11

Description

This is a revised and expanded edition of Kac's original introduction to algebraic aspects of conformal field theory, which was published by the AMS in 1996. The volume serves as an introduction to algebraic aspects of conformal field theory, which in the past 15 years revealed a variety of unusual mathematical notions. Vertex algebra theory provides an effective tool to study them in a unified way. In the book, a mathematician encounters new algebraic structures that originated from Einstein's special relativity postulate and Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. A physicist will find familiar notions presented in a more rigorous and systematic way, possibly leading to a better understanding of foundations of quantum physics.

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