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