Recent Progress in Irrational Conformal Field Theory
High Energy Physics - Theory
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
In this talk, I will 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, the Ward identities for the correlators of ICFT and solutions of the Ward identities. In particular, I will discuss the solutions for the correlators of the coset constructions and the correlators of the affine-Sugawara nests on . Finally, I will discuss the recent global solution for the correlators of all the ICFT's in the master equation.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9309087,
title = {Recent Progress in Irrational Conformal Field Theory},
author = {M. B. Halpern},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9309087},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
16 pages, Latex, UCB-PTH-93/25, LBL-34610, talk presented at the conference "Strings 1993", Berkeley, May 23-29