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[http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.3145 Twenty-five years of two-dimensional rational conformal field theory]<br> | |||
by Jürgen Fuchs, Ingo Runkel, Christoph Schweigert (0910.3145 [hep-th]) | |||
[http://arxiv.org/abs/0807.3472 Conformal Field Theory and Statistical Mechanics]<br> | [http://arxiv.org/abs/0807.3472 Conformal Field Theory and Statistical Mechanics]<br> | ||
by John Cardy (0807.3472 [cond-mat.stat-mech], 37 pages) | by John Cardy (0807.3472 [cond-mat.stat-mech], 37 pages) | ||
Revision as of 16:16, 19 October 2009
see also String theory
books
Conformal Field Theory
by P. Di Francesco, P. Mathieu, and D. Senechal (Springer Verlag, 1997)
This encyclopedic reference is a favourite among string theorists.
reviews
Twenty-five years of two-dimensional rational conformal field theory
by Jürgen Fuchs, Ingo Runkel, Christoph Schweigert (0910.3145 [hep-th])
Conformal Field Theory and Statistical Mechanics
by John Cardy (0807.3472 [cond-mat.stat-mech], 37 pages)
An Introduction to Conformal Field Theory
by M.R. Gaberdiel (hep-th/9910156, 69 pages)
Conformal field theory: a case study
by Krzysztof Gawedzki (hep-th/9904145, 55 pages, 21 figures)
These lecture notes are devoted to the Wess-Zumino-Witten model of two-dimensional conformal field theory.
Applied Conformal Field Theory
by P. Ginsparg (hep-th/9108028)
These lecture notes are a valuable reference on conformal field theory and Kac-Moody algebras.
Introduction to Conformal Field Theory
by A. N. Schellekens
These are notes based on lectures given at schools in Germany and Spain in 1995.