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BL
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586929
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b416148
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| Uniform Title
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Ba no riron to toporojī.English
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| Main Entry
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Kohno, Toshitake.
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| Title & Author
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Conformal field theory and topology /\ Toshitake Kohno ; [translated from the Japanese by the author].
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| Publication Statement
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Providence, R.I. :: American Mathematical Society,, c2002.
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| Series Statement
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Translations of mathematical monographs ;; v. 210
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Iwanami series in modern mathematics
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x, 172 p. :: ill. ;; 22 cm.
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| ISBN
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082182130X (acid-free paper)
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: 9780821821305 (acid-free paper)
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-167) and index.
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| Contents
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Geometric Aspects of Conformal Field Theory -- Loop groups and affine Lie algebras -- Representations of affine Lie algebras -- Wess-Zumino-Witten model -- The space of conformal blocks and fusion rules -- KZ equation -- Vertex operators and OPE -- Jones-Witten Theory -- KZ equation and representations of braid groups -- Conformal field theory and the Jones polynomial -- Witten's invariants for 3-manifolds -- Projective representations of mapping class groups -- Chern-Simons theory and connections on surfaces -- Chern-Simons Perturbation Theory -- Vassiliev invariants and the Kontsevich integral -- Chern-Simons functionals and the Ray-Singer torsion -- Chern-Simons perturbative invariants -- Further Developments and Prospects.
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Conformal invariants.
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Quantum field theory.
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Topology.
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| LC Classification
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QC174.52.C66K6413 2002
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