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.

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 1

Introduction

chapter 3

Solitons

chapter

Monstrous Moonshine and the Classification of CFT

(16 lectures given in Istanbul, August 1998)