Conformal Field Theory

Some References

• P di Francesco, P Mathieu and D Senechal, Conformal Field Theory, (Springer, 1997) - the `big yellow book', which contains probably everything in these lectures, and a lot more.
• J Cardy, Boundary Conformal Field Theory, a brief review of CFT followed by the basic ideas of boundary CFT - an article for Encyclopedia of Mathematical Physics. pdf
• C Itzykson and J M Drouffe, Statistical Field Theory, vols. 1-2 Cambridge 1988)
• M Henkel, Conformal Invariance and Critical Phenomena (Springer, 1999) - more from the point of view of critical behaviour
• C Itzykson, H Saleur and J-B Zuber, Conformal Invariance and Applications to Statistical Mechanics, (World Scientific, 1988) - early reprint collection
• P Ginsparg and J Cardy in Fields, Strings and Critical Phenomena ,, Les Houches Lectures 1988 (N Holland, 1990). J Cardy's contribution (without figures) can be found here, P Ginsparg's here.
• J Cardy, Scaling and Renormalization in Statistical Physics, , Chap. 11, which can be found here.
• les Houches lectures 2008: relevant lectures by John Cardy, Ian Affleck, and Wendelin Werner.
• G Mussardo, Off-Critical Statistical Mechanical Models: Factorised Scattering Theories and Bootstrap Programme, Physics Reports, 218, 215 (1992.)