Toshitake Kohno ; [translated from the Japanese by the author].
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Providence, R.I. :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
American Mathematical Society,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
c2002.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
x, 172 p. :
Other Physical Details
ill. ;
Dimensions
22 cm.
SERIES
Series Title
Iwanami series in modern mathematics
Series Title
Translations of mathematical monographs ;
Volume Designation
v. 210
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-167) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
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.