Conformal Field Theory

by Philippe Francesco, Pierre Mathieu, David Senechal

Overview

This self-contained book develops conformal field theory from first principles and provides many proofs and exercises. An excellent book for individual study, the book includes a great deal of background material on quantum field theory, statistical mechanics, Lie algebras and affine Lie algebras.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781461274759
Publisher:	Springer New York
Publication date:	09/17/2011
Series:	Graduate Texts in Contemporary Physics Series
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997
Pages:	890
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.07(d)

Table of Contents

1. Introduction; 2. Quantum Field Theory; 3. Statistical Mechanics; 4. Global Conformal Invariance; 5. Conformal Invariance in Two Dimensions; 6. The Operator Formalism I; 7. The Operator Formalism II; 8. Minimal Models; 9. The Coulomb Gas Formalism; 10. Modular Invariance; 11. Finite Size Scaling; 12. The Two-Dimensional Ising Model; 13. Simple Lie Algebras; 14. Affine Lie Algebras; 15. The WZNW Model; 16. Fusion Rules; 17. Modular Invariants; 18. The Coset Construction