Timeline for Why do Physicists need unitary representation of Kac-Moody algebra?
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| Jan 9, 2011 at 2:35 | comment | added | Najdorf | As far as I know they are only interested in the very special affine case. | |
| Jul 5, 2010 at 7:44 | vote | accept | Shizhuo Zhang | ||
| Jul 4, 2010 at 13:25 | answer | added | José Figueroa-O'Farrill | timeline score: 10 | |
| Jul 4, 2010 at 10:48 | answer | added | David Bar Moshe | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jul 4, 2010 at 8:13 | comment | added | Jeff Schenker | My vague understanding is that this is relevant to 2D conformal field theory. Try looking here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conformal_field_theory and here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virasoro_algebra | |
| Jul 4, 2010 at 8:06 | comment | added | Wadim Zudilin | After a question on "failures of physicists" (mathoverflow.net/questions/30149) we could hardly hope that a physicist comes and explains the point. :-) | |
| Jul 4, 2010 at 7:52 | comment | added | Qiaochu Yuan | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affine_Lie_algebra might have some information. | |
| Jul 4, 2010 at 7:35 | answer | added | jeremy | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jul 4, 2010 at 7:04 | history | asked | Shizhuo Zhang | CC BY-SA 2.5 |