Moore, Gregory; Seiberg, Nathan Lectures on RCFT. (English) Zbl 0728.57012 Physics, geometry, and topology, Proc. NATO ASI, Summer Sch. Theor. Phys., Banff/Can. 1989, NATO ASI Ser., Ser. B 238, 263-361 (1990). Summary: [For the entire collection see Zbl 0723.00031.] We review some recent results in two dimensional Rational Conformal Field Theory. We discuss these theories as a generalization of group theory. The relation to a three dimensional topological theory is explained and the particular example of the Chern-Simons-Witten theory is analyzed in detail. This study leads to a natural conjecture regarding the classification of all RCFT’s. Cited in 1 ReviewCited in 23 Documents MSC: 57N10 Topology of general \(3\)-manifolds (MSC2010) 81T40 Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics Keywords:two dimensional Rational Conformal Field Theory; Chern-Simons-Witten theory Citations:Zbl 0723.00031 PDFBibTeX XML