Kac-Moody and Virasoro Algebras
Subtitle: A Reprint Volume for Physicists (Advanced Series in Mathematical Physics, Vol 3)
Contributors: David Olive (Editor)
Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc
Published: August 1988
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 604
ISBN-13: 9789971504199
Subjects: Algebra; Mathematics for scientists & engineers; PHYSICS; Algebras
First sentence: The study of what came to be called Kac-Moody algebras began in 1967, with the work of V.G. Kac [l], R.V. Moody [Reprinted Paper #l] and I.L. Kantor [2], about the same time that the seeds of string theory (for an account see réf. [3]), with which its development has been intertwined, were sown in the study of the "duality" of different descriptions of the strong interactions of elementary particles.