TY - BOOK AU - Kac,Victor G. AU - Raina,Ashok K. AU - Rozhkovskaya,Natasha TI - Bombay Lectures on Highest Weight Representations of Infinite Dimensional Lie Algebras T2 - Advanced series in mathematical physics SN - 9789814522199 (pbk.) AV - QA252.3 .K328 2013 U1 - 512.482 K113B2 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Singapore PB - World Scientific Publishing KW - Infinite dimensional Lie algebras KW - Quantum field theory KW - Mathematics N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-234) and index N2 - The second edition of this book incorporates, as its first part, the largely unchanged text of the first edition, while its second part is the collection of lectures on vertex algebras, delivered by Professor Kac at the TIFR in January 2003. The basic idea of these lectures was to demonstrate how the key notions of the theory of vertex algebras--such as quantum fields, their normal ordered product and lambda-bracket, energy-momentum field and conformal weight, untwisted and twisted representations--simplify and clarify the constructions of the first edition of the book. -- ER -