Minimal lectures on two-dimensional conformal field theory

We provide a brief but self-contained review of conformal field theory on the Riemann sphere. We first introduce general axioms such as local conformal invariance, and derive Ward identities and BPZ equations. We then define minimal models and Liouville theory by specific axioms on their spectrum...

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Main Author: Sylvain Ribault
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SciPost 2018-06-01
Series:SciPost Physics Lecture Notes
Online Access:https://scipost.org/SciPostPhysLectNotes.1