Lectures on Elliptic Functions and Modular Forms in Conformal Field Theory
Mathematical Physics
2007-05-23 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory
math.MP
Abstract
A concise review of the notions of elliptic functions, modular forms, and theta-functions is provided, devoting most of the paper to applications to Conformal Field Theory (CFT), introduced within the axiomatic framework of quantum field theory. Many features, believed to be peculiar to chiral 2D (= two dimensional) CFT, are shown to have a counterpart in any (even dimensional) globally conformal invariant quantum field theory. The treatment is based on a recently introduced higher dimensional extension of the concept of vertex algebra.
Cite
@article{arxiv.math-ph/0412039,
title = {Lectures on Elliptic Functions and Modular Forms in Conformal Field Theory},
author = {Nikolay M. Nikolov and Ivan T. Todorov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math-ph/0412039},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
87 pages, LaTex, New Appendix C and references added, minor corrections