Vertex Algebras For Beginners

An expanded edition of Kac's original introduction to algebraic aspects of conformal field theory which was published by the AMS in 1996. New material is added,... » 

An expanded edition of Kac's original introduction to algebraic aspects of conformal field theory which was published by the AMS in 1996. New material is added, including the foundations of a rapidly growing area of algebraic conformal theory and, in some places, the exposition is simplified. «