Rational and global forms of certain Chiral Conformal Field Theories; Vertex Algebras I

2014/01/09 by Ramadas, T. R.
#14H99 #81T40 #Algebraic Geometry (math.AG) #FOS: Mathematics #Quantum Algebra (math.QA)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1401.1969

Abstract

We present explicit global constructions - avoiding power series - of certain chiral CFTs, including current algebras on the projective line. We outline an approach to vertex algebras, inspired by this construction. We construct natural pairings on state spaces.

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