A-D-E Classification of Conformal Field Theories
Abstract
The ADE classification scheme is encountered in many areas of mathematics, most notably in the study of Lie algebras. Here such a scheme is shown to describe families of two-dimensional conformal field theories.
- Publication:
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Scholarpedia
- Pub Date:
- 2010
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:0911.3242
- Bibcode:
- 2010SchpJ...510314C
- Keywords:
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- High Energy Physics - Theory
- E-Print:
- 19 pages, 4 figures, 4 tables