<p><P>"β¦[The] authors give a systematic introduction to the theory of vertex operator algebras and their representations. Particular emphasis is put on the axiomatic development of the theory and the construction theorems for vertex operator algebras and their modules. The book provides a detailed s
Introduction to Vertex Operator Superalgebras and Their Modules
β Scribed by Xiaoping Xu (auth.)
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 370
- Series
- Mathematics and Its Applications 456
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
`... well-written, with many improvements of known results and existing proofs. The researchers and the graduate students will use this book both as a graduate textbook and as a useful reference...'
Zentralblatt MATH, 929 (2000)
β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Self-Dual Codes....Pages 3-36
Self-Dual Lattices....Pages 37-82
Front Matter....Pages 83-83
Definitions and General Properties....Pages 85-148
Conformal Superalgebras, Affine Kac-Moody Algebras and KZ Equations....Pages 149-201
Analogue of the Highest-Weight Theory....Pages 203-234
Lattice Vertex Operator Superalgebras....Pages 235-287
VOSAs Generated by Their Subspaces of Small Weights....Pages 289-335
Back Matter....Pages 337-360
β¦ Subjects
Non-associative Rings and Algebras;Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory;Order, Lattices, Ordered Algebraic Structures;Discrete Mathematics in Computer Science;Associative Rings and Algebras
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