Recent progress in irrational conformal field theory

Conference · Wed Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 1993

OSTI ID:10150771

Halpern, M B

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 g/h coset construction and the correlators of the affine-Sugawara nests on g {contains} h{sub 1} {contains} {hor_ellipsis} {contains} h{sub n}. Finally, I will discuss the recent global solution for the correlators of all the ICFT`s in the master equation.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States); National Science Foundation, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC03-76SF00098
• OSTI ID: 10150771
• Report Number(s): LBL-34610; CONF-9305317-2; ON: DE94011908; CNN: GRANT PHY90-21139
• Resource Relation: Conference: 1993 international conference on strings,Berkeley, CA (United States),24-29 May 1993; Other Information: PBD: Sep 1993
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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