Categorification and correlation functions in conformal field theory

International Congress of Mathematicians, ICM 2006

Volumn 3, Issue , 2006, Pages 443-458

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b KARLSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

(Rational) conformal field theory; Categorification; Tensor categories; Topological field theory

Indexed keywords

2-CATEGORIES; CATEGORIFICATION; CONFORMAL FIELD THEORIES; CORRELATION FUNCTION; FIELD THEORY; PHYSICAL INTERPRETATION; TENSOR CATEGORIES; TOPOLOGICAL DEFECT;

TENSORS; TOPOLOGY; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

RATIONAL FUNCTIONS;

EID: 84878103405     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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