Conformal Field Theory: New Non-perturbative Methods In String And Field Theory ISBN: 9780429502873 Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / CRC Press Digital rights:Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited Subjects: Physical Sciences; Physics; Computational Physics;
This book provides an understanding of conformal field theory and its importance to both statistical mechanics and string theory. It introduces the Wess-Zumino-Novokov-Witten (WZNW) models and their current algebras, the affine Kac-Moody algebras.