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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480115103321

Titolo

Vertex operator algebras and related areas : an international conference in honor of Geoffrey Mason's 60th birthday : July 7-11, 2008, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois / / Maarten Bergvelt, Gaywalee Yamskulna, Wenhua Zhao, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , [2009]

©2009

ISBN

0-8218-8176-0

0-8218-4840-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (245 p.)

Collana

Contemporary mathematics ; ; volume 497

Disciplina

512/.556

Soggetti

Vertex operator algebras

Modular functions

Hopf algebras

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Biography of Geoffrey Mason""; ""List of Ph.D. Students Advised by Geoffrey Mason""; ""List of Talks""; ""List of Participants""; ""An Analogue of Modular BPZ-Equation in Logarithmic (Super)Conformal Field Theory""; ""Vector-Valued Modular Forms""; ""Alternate Notions of N=1 Superconformality and Deformations of N=1 Vertex Superalgebras""; ""Hyperbolic Weyl Groups and the Four Normed Division Algebras""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. General Structure""; ""3. Explicit Example: A2++""; ""4. Explicit Example: D4++""; ""5. Explicit Example: E8++""; ""6. More results""

""References""""Zhu's Algebra, the C2 Algebra, and Twisted Modules""; ""Fusion Algebras for Vertex Operator Algebras and Finite Groups""; ""Rooted Trees and Symmetric Functions: Zhao's Homomorphism and the Commutative Hexagon""; ""Representations of Vertex Operator Algebras and Braided Finite Tensor Categories""; ""Recurrences and Characters of Feigin-Stoyanovsky's Type Subspaces""; ""The FLM Conjecture and Framed VOA""; ""On Quantum Vertex Algebras and



Their Modules""; ""Introduction to Invariant Chiral Differential Operators""; ""Dynkin Operators and Renormalization Group Actions in pQFT""