课程题目:Introduction to the topological field theory formulation of rational conformal field theory
时 间: 4月24日,25日,27日,28日 16:30-18:00
地 点: 管理科研楼 1611
主讲人:Jens Fjelstad
Lecture 1: A brief review of Conformal Field Theory. CFT on the complex plane; fields and states,chiral symmetry, the stress tensor and the Virasoro algebra, the Heisenberg algebra;
chiral CFT and conformal blocks. CFT on the upper half plane. CFT on Riemann
surfaces; holomorphic factorization.
Lecture 2: Chiral CFT on the complex plane and Moore-Seiberg data; fusing matrices and braiding matrices; abelian ribbon categories and modular categories.
Lecture 3: Functorial quantum field theory; QFT as a representation of a bordism category; 2D Topological Field Theory, closed, open, open/closed; functorial 2D CFT.
Lecture 4: Modular categories and Reshetikhin-Turaev Topological Field Theory in three dimensions.
主办单位: 中国科学技术大学数学科学学院
中科院吴文俊数学重点实验室
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