Representation theory made accessible

This volume of the Encyclopaedia contains both an introduction to representation theory and a survey of some advanced topics concerning representations of Virasoro and affine algebras. All this material is important for mathematicians and theoretical physicists, and graduate students and researchers in these fields will benefit from using this book.

Inhalt
I. Introduction to the Theory of Representations and Noncommutative Harmonic Analysis.- II. Representations of Virasoro and Affine Lie Algebras.- Author Index.