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Title

A Mathematica Package for Computing Operator Product Expansions
Author

K. Thielemans
Journal / Anthology

International Journal of Modern Physics C
Year: 1991
Volume: 2
Issue: 3
Page range: 787-798
Description

A general-purpose Mathematica package for compuing operator product expansions of composite operators in meromorphic conformal field theory is described. Given the OPEs for a set of "basic" fields, OPEs of arbitrarily complicated composites can be computer automatically. Normal ordered products are always reduced to a standard form. Two explicit examples are presented: the conformal anomaly for superstrings and a free field realization for the B-hat_2 Kac-Moody algebra.
Subject

*Science > Physics > Quantum Physics
Keywords

conformal field theory, operator product expansions, symbolic computation, Mathematica