1st Edition

Conformal Field Theory New Non-perturbative Methods In String And Field Theory

    416 Pages
    by CRC Press

    416 Pages
    by CRC Press

    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.

    Editor’s Foreword -- Preface -- Conformal field theory: a case study -- Non-Perturbative Dynamics Of Four-Dimensional Supersymmetric Field Theories -- An introduction to meromorphic conformal field theory and its representations -- Derivation of the Hadronic Structure Functions From Quantum Chromodynamics -- Introduction -- Two-Dimensional Quantum Hadron Dynamics -- Solitons -- The Parton Model -- Beyond the Valence Parton Model -- Monstrous Moonshine and the Classification of CFT -- Part 1. The classification of conformal field theories -- Part 2. Monstrous Moonshine -- Affine Kac-Moody Algebras and the Wess-Zumino-Witten Model Mark Walton

    Biography

    Teoman Turgut