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Vertex algebras for beginners, Second edition

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Victor Kac, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

Publication: University Lecture Series
Publication Year: 1997; Volume 10
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-1396-6 (print); 978-1-4704-2159-5 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/ulect/010
MathSciNet review: MR1651389
MSC: Primary 17B69; Secondary 17B65, 81R10, 81T05, 81T40

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Chapters

• Preface
• Preface to the second edition
• Chapter 1. Wightman axioms and vertex algebras
• Chapter 2. Calculus of formal distributions
• Chapter 3. Local fields
• Chapter 4. Structure theory of vertex algebras
• Chapter 5. Examples of vertex algebras and their applications