Lectures on Conformal Field Theory and Kac-moody Algebras
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This is an introduction to the basic ideas and to a few further selected topics in conformal quantum field theory and in the theory of Kac-Moody algebras. These lectures were held at the Graduate Course on Conformal Field Theory and Integrable Models (Budapest, August 1996). They will appear in a volume of the Springer Lecture Notes in Physics edited by Z. Horvath and L. Palla. —————— X Heisenberg fellow
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