Department of Mathematics

Indian Institute of Science

Bangalore 560 012

 

SEMINAR

 

Speaker

:

 Prof. T.R. Ramadas
Affiliation : ICTP, Trieste

Subject Area

:

Mathematics

 

Venue

:

Lecture Hall I, Department of Mathematics

 

Time

:

4.00-5.00 p.m.

 

Date  

:

January4, 2012 (Wednesday)

Title

:

"The chiral boson and function theory on the unit disc"
Abstract

:

Conformal field theories (CFTs) are related (in Mathematics) to algebraic geometry, infinite-dimensional Lie algebras and probability, and (in Physics) to critical phenomena and string theory. From a mathematical point of view, much of the formalisation has been from the point of view of algebra -- in fact using formal power series. I will give a denition of the simplest "chiral" or "holomorphic" CFT using elementary function theory. If time permits, I will also explain operator product expansions.