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A-D-E Classification of Conformal Field Theories

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-18 v1

Abstract

The ADE classification scheme is encountered in many areas of mathematics, most notably in the study of Lie algebras. Here such a scheme is shown to describe families of two-dimensional conformal field theories.

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@article{arxiv.0911.3242,
  title  = {A-D-E Classification of Conformal Field Theories},
  author = {Andrea Cappelli and Jean-Bernard Zuber},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0911.3242},
  year   = {2009}
}

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19 pages, 4 figures, 4 tables; review article to appear in Scholarpedia, http://www.scholarpedia.org/

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