Böcker av Victor G. Kac

This is the third, substantially revised edition of this important monograph and graduate text. Each chapter begins with a motivating discussion and ends with a collection of exercises, with hints to the more challenging problems. The theory has applications in many areas of mathematics and mathematical physics and these are discussed in relation to the basic theory where appropriate.

Based on courses given by the author at MIT and at Rome University in spring 1997, this book presents an introduction to algebraic aspects of conformal field theory. It includes material on the foundations of a rapidly growing area of algebraic conformal theory.