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Irrational Conformal Field Theory on the Sphere and the Torus

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-02-03 v2

Abstract

I review the foundations of irrational conformal field theory (ICFT), which includes rational conformal field theory as a small subspace. Highlights of the review include the Virasoro master equation and the generalized Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov equations for the correlators of ICFT on the sphere and the torus.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9411209,
  title  = {Irrational Conformal Field Theory on the Sphere and the Torus},
  author = {M. B. Halpern},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9411209},
  year   = {2008}
}

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LaTex file, 16 pages, Invited talk at the XIth International Congress of Mathematical Physics, Paris, July 18-23, 1994, One misspelled name corrected