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We develop an approach towards construction of conformal field theory starting from the basic axioms of vertex operator algebras.
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Zhu, Y. Global vertex operators on Riemann surfaces. Commun.Math. Phys. 165, 485–531 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02099421
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