Conformal deformation by the currents of affine g

DOI10.1016/0003-4916(88)90103-0zbMath0665.17009OpenAlexW2049987234MaRDI QIDQ1115952

M. B. Halpern, James K. Freericks

Publication date: 1988

Published in: Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0003-4916(88)90103-0

zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theoryrepresentationsdeformationsVirasoro algebra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Infinite-dimensional Lie (super)algebras (17B65)

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