TFT construction of RCFT correlators I: Partition functions

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 646, Issue 3-2, 2002, Pages 353-497

  Fuchs, Jürgen ^a   Runkel, Ingo ^b   Schweigert, Christoph ^b  

^a Institutionen for Fysik   (Sweden)

^b LPTHE   (France)

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EID: 0037049228     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0550-3213(02)00744-7     Document Type: Review

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