Strings, conformal fields, and topology. An introduction

zbMath0722.53082MaRDI QIDQ1188961

Michio Kaku

Publication date: 17 September 1992

Published in: Graduate Texts in Contemporary Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theorybraid groupsconformal mappingsquantum groupscohomological topological field theoryVirasoro algebrasknot theorysuperstringsJones polynomialsFloer theorynon-perturbative methodsgravity modelsstring groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum groups (quantized enveloping algebras) and related deformations (17B37) Quantum groups and related algebraic methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R50) Virasoro and related algebras (17B68) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Model quantum field theories (81T10) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to quantum theory (81-01)

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