Operator algebras

[2] P. Di Francesco, P. Mathieu, and D. Sénéchal. Conformal field theory. Graduate Texts in Contemporary Physics. Springer, 1996. [3] I. Frenkel, J. Lepowsky, ...
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Contents 1 Formal calculus on general formal distributions 1.1 Notations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.2 Operations on formal distributions . . . . . . . . . . . 1.3 Formal delta-funtion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.4 Expansions of zero . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.5 Taylor’s formula . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.6 The notion of locality and operator product expansions

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2 Examples of local formal distributions 2.1 Virasoro currents and Virasoro algebra . 2.2 Affine currents and affine Lie algebras . . 2.3 The free boson and Heisenberg algebras . 2.4 The free fermion and Cliford affinisation 2.5 The βγ system (ghost bosons) . . . . . .

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3 Local fields 3.1 Normallly ordered product of fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.2 Free fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.3 Wick theorem and the “non-commutative” generalizaton . 3.4 Field representations of Lie algebras of formal distributions 3.4.1 Free bosons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.4.2 Free fermions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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4 Vertex operator algebras 4.1 Axiomatic definition and properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.2 Vertex algebras associated to Lie algebras of formal distributions 4.3 Conformal vertex algebras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.4 Field algebra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Examples and applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

5 Free fields realizations of irreductible highest weight modules of Lie algebras 5.1 The vertex operator realization in terms of free bosons . . . . 5.2 The Wakimoto realization in terms of free bosons and bosonic ghost pairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.3 Realizations in terms of free fermions . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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