Recent Developments in Quantum Affine Algebras and Related Topics: Representations of Affine and Quantum Affine Algebras and Their Applications, North ... May 21-24, 1998

The focus of the May 1998 conference was recent developments in the quantum affine algebras, the vertex (operational) algebras, the extended affine Lie algebras, and their applications in combinatorics and statistical mechanics. Among the topics of the 22 papers are the polynomial behavior of weight multiplicities for classical simple Lie algebras and classical affine Kac-Moody algebras, automorphism groups and twisted modules for lattice vertex operator algebras, truncated meanders, remarks on fermionic formula, and functorial properties of the hypergeometric map. No index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)