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Monodromy Properties of Conformal Field Theories and Quantum Groups

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Differential Geometric Methods in Theoretical Physics

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Recently a growing interest in extracting new results from 2D conformai field theories (CFT) going away from criticality [21,22] has motivated the study of the connection between solvable conformai invariant models and the condition of integrability in 2D, the Yang-Baxter equation.

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Valtancoli, P. (1990). Monodromy Properties of Conformal Field Theories and Quantum Groups. In: Chau, LL., Nahm, W. (eds) Differential Geometric Methods in Theoretical Physics. NATO ASI Series, vol 245. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-9148-7_33

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