Date | 2017-02-06 |
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Speaker | Jethro van Ekeren |
Dept. | Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil |
Room | 129-406 |
Time | 10:00-11:30 |
The aim of this talk is to describe a very simplified picture of the mathematical formalism of quantum field theory and, with that as motivation, to arrive at the notion of vertex algebra. I will introduce the first nontrivial example of vertex algebra, namely the free boson.