nLab minimal model CFT

Contents

This entry is about the concept in conformal field theory. For the conceopt of minimal models in homotopy theory see at minimal fibration.


Context

Quantum Field Theory

algebraic quantum field theory (perturbative, on curved spacetimes, homotopical)

Introduction

Concepts

field theory:

Lagrangian field theory

quantization

quantum mechanical system, quantum probability

free field quantization

gauge theories

interacting field quantization

renormalization

Theorems

States and observables

Operator algebra

Local QFT

Perturbative QFT

Contents

Idea

In conformal field theory a minimal model is a 2d CFT or 2d SCFT, whose field content consists of a finite number of irreducible representations of the (super-)Virasoro algebra.

References

See also

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