ABSTRACT
This book provides an understanding of conformal field theory and its importance to both statistical mechanics and string theory. It introduces the Wess-Zumino-Novokov-Witten (WZNW) models and their current algebras, the affine Kac-Moody algebras.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter
Derivation of the Hadronic Structure Functions From Quantum Chromodynamics
Lectures at the the Feza Gürsey Institute, Istanbul and the Mittag-Leffler Institute, Stockholm in 1998.
chapter
Monstrous Moonshine and the Classification of CFT
(16 lectures given in Istanbul, August 1998)