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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809225803321

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, ; 497 , 0271-4132

Disciplina

512/.556

Soggetti

Vertex operator algebras

Modular functions

Hopf algebras

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.