The associative algebras of conformal field theory

Letters in Mathematical Physics

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 379-383

  Brungs, David ^a   Nahm, Werner ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conformal field theory; Normal ordered product; Zero mode algebra; Zhu's algebra

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038498598     PISSN: 03779017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007525300192     Document Type: Article

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