The history of critical phenomena goes back to the year 1869 when Andrews discovered the critical point of carbon dioxide, located at about 31°C and 73 atmospheres pressure. In the neighborhood ofthis point the carbon dioxide was observed to become opalescent, that is, light is …
W-symmetry is an extension of conformal symmetry in two dimensions. Since its introduction in 1985, W-symmetry has become one of the central notions in the study of two-dimensional conformal field theory. The mathematical structures that underlie W-symmetry are so-called W-algeb…
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"The main aim of this book is to give a self contained proof of the Verlinde formula for the dimension of the space of conformal blocks and prove the connection between conformal blocks and generalized theta functions"--
An introduction to affine lie algebras and the associated groups -- Space of vacua and its propagation -- Factorization theorem for space of vacua -- Fusion ring and explicit verlinde formula -- Moduli stack of quasi-parabolic G-bundles and its uniformization -- Parabolic G-bund…
"The main aim of this book is to give a self contained proof of the Verlinde formula for the dimension of the space of conformal blocks and prove the connection between conformal blocks and generalized theta functions"
