Conformal and superconformal theories for superstrings

September 25 - October 6

Institut Henri Poincare

Christoph Schweigert (LPTHE, Jussieu)

The content of IHP Lecture notes 40 can be found in

CONFORMAL FIELD THEORY, BOUNDARY CONDITIONS AND APPLICATIONS TO STRING THEORY by C. Schweigert, J. Fuchs and J. Walcher

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Part 1 SUPERCONFORMAL SYMMETRY

Part 2 CHIRAL ALGEBRAS

Part 3 FERMIONS AND LATTICES

Part 4 FUSION RULES AND MODULAR TRANSFORMATIONS

Part 5 MODULAR INVARIANTS AND SIMPLE CURRENTS

Part 6 ASPECTS OF N=2 THEORIES

• Spectral flow

• The chiral ring

• Ramond ground states

Part 7 THE BOSONIC STRING MAP

Part 8 THE GEPNER CONSTRUCTION

Part 9 CALCULATION OF SPECTRA AND POINCARE

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