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This article is an outgrowth of a series of three one-hour lectures on the Knizhnik—Zamolodchikov equations presented at the 1998 Adelaide Summer School on “Differential Equations in Geometry and Physics.” This article does not constitute a comprehensive account of all that is known about the KZ equations but, rather, is an introduction to some of the main results intended to motivate the reader to further study. The three main sections can be read, to a large extent, independently.
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Bouwknegt, P. (2002). The Knizhnik—Zamolodchikov Equations. In: Bouwknegt, P., Wu, S. (eds) Geometric Analysis and Applications to Quantum Field Theory. Progress in Mathematics, vol 205. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0067-3_2
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