Bombay lectures on highest weight representations of infinite dimensional lie algebras
By: Victor G. Kac, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, Ashok K. Raina, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India, Natasha Rozhkovskaya, Kansas State University, USA
Contributors: Raina, A. K., author; Rozhkovskaya, Natasha, author
Edition: Second edition.
Series: Advanced series in mathematical physics -- vol. 29; Advanced series in mathematical physics -- v. 29.
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Hackensack,] New Jersey
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9789814522182; 9789814522199
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Infinite dimensional Lie algebras; Quantum field theory
Description: The second edition of this book incorporates, as its first part, the largely unchanged text of the first edition, while its second part is the collection of lectures on vertex algebras, delivered by Professor Kac at the TIFR in January 2003.  The basic idea of these lectures was to demonstrate how the key notions of the theory of vertex algebras--such as quantum fields, their normal ordered product and lambda-bracket, energy-momentum field and conformal weight, untwisted and twisted representations--simplify and clarify the constructions of the first edition of the book. --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-234) and index.