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Introduction to Vertex Operator Algebras and Their Representations / by James Lepowsky, Haisheng Li
(Progress in Mathematics. ISSN:2296505X ; 227)
Edition | 1st ed. 2004. |
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Publisher | Boston, MA : Birkhäuser Boston : Imprint: Birkhäuser |
Year | 2004 |
Language | English |
Size | XIII, 318 p : online resource |
Authors | *Lepowsky, James author Li, Haisheng author SpringerLink (Online service) |
Subjects | LCSH:Algebra LCSH:Associative rings LCSH:Associative algebras LCSH:Operator theory LCSH:Topological groups LCSH:Lie groups LCSH:Mathematical physics FREE:Algebra FREE:Associative Rings and Algebras FREE:Operator Theory FREE:Topological Groups and Lie Groups FREE:Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics |
Notes | 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Motivation -- 1.2 Example of a vertex operator -- 1.3 The notion of vertex operator algebra -- 1.4 Simplification of the definition -- 1.5 Representations and modules -- 1.6 Construction of families of examples -- 1.7 Some further developments -- 2 Formal Calculus -- 2.1 Formal series and the formal delta function -- 2.2 Derivations and the formal Taylor Theorem -- 2.3 Expansions of zero and applications -- 3 Vertex Operator Algebras: The Axiomatic Basics -- 3.1 Definitions and some fundamental properties -- 3.2 Commutativity properties -- 3.3 Associativity properties -- 3.4 The Jacobi identity from commutativity and associativity -- 3.5 The Jacobi identity from commutativity -- 3.6 The Jacobi identity from skew symmetry and associativity -- 3.7 S3-symmetry of the Jacobi identity -- 3.8 The iterate formula and normal-ordered products -- 3.9 Further elementary notions -- 3.10 Weak nilpotence and nilpotence -- 3.11 Centralizers and the center -- 3.12 Direct product and tensor product vertex algebras -- 4 Modules -- 4.1 Definition and some consequences -- 4.2 Commutativity properties -- 4.3 Associativity properties -- 4.4 The Jacobi identity as a consequence of associativity and commutativity properties -- 4.5 Further elementary notions -- 4.6 Tensor product modules for tensor product vertex algebras -- 4.7 Vacuum-like vectors -- 4.8 Adjoining a module to a vertex algebra -- 5 Representations of Vertex Algebras and the Construction of Vertex Algebras and Modules -- 5.1 Weak vertex operators -- 5.2 The action of weak vertex operators on the space of weak vertex operators -- 5.3 The canonical weak vertex algebra ?(W) and the equivalence between modules and representations -- 5.4 Subalgebras of ?(W) -- 5.5 Local subalgebras and vertex subalgebras of ?(W) -- 5.6 Vertex subalgebras of ?(W)associated with the Virasoro algebra -- 5.7 General construction theorems for vertex algebras and modules -- 6 Construction of Families of Vertex Operator Algebras and Modules -- 6.1 Vertex operator algebras and modules associated to the Virasoro algebra -- 6.2 Vertex operator algebras and modules associated to affine Lie algebras -- 6.3 Vertex operator algebras and modules associated to Heisenberg algebras -- 6.4 Vertex operator algebras and modules associated to even lattices—the setting -- 6.5 Vertex operator algebras and modules associated to even lattices—the main results -- 6.6 Classification of the irreducible L?(?, O)-modules for g finite-dimensional simple and ? a positive integer -- References HTTP:URL=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-8176-8186-9 |
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