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A conformal algebra is an algebraic structure underlying the locality of formal distributions and the Operator Product Expansion formula (see [FLM], [K1]–[K3]).

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Zelmanov, E. (2003). Idempotents in Conformal Algebras. In: Proceedings of the Third International Algebra Conference. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0337-6_13

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