Particles and Fields
By: edited by Gordon Semenoff, Luc Vinet
Contributors: Vinet, Luc
Series: CRM Series in Mathematical Physics; CRM series in mathematical physics
Publisher: Springer New York; Imprint; Springer
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 489
ISBN-13: 9781461214106
Subjects: Physics
Description: The focus of this volume is on quantum field theory: inegrable theories, statistical systems, and applications to condensed-matter physics. It covers some of the most significant recent advances in theoretical physics at a level accessible to advanced graduate students. The contributions, each by a noted researcher, dicuss such topics as: some remarkable features of integrable Toda field theories (E. Corrigan), properties of a gas of interacting Fermions in a lattice of magnetic ions (J. Feldman & . al.), how quantum groups arise in three-dimensional topological quantum field thory (D. Freed), a method for computing correlation functions of solvable lattice models (T. Miwa), matrix models discussed from the point of view of integrable systems (A. Morozov), localization of path integrals in certain equivariant cohomologies (A. Niemi), Calogero-Moser systems (S. Ruijsenaars), planar gauge theories with broken symmetries (M. de Wild Propitius & F.A. Bais), quantum-Hall fluids (A. Capelli & al.), spectral theory of quantum vortex operators (P.I. Ettinghoff).
Table of contents: title: Recent Developments in Affine Toda Quantum Theory (E. Corrigan); title: A Class of Fermi Liquids (J. Feldman, H. Knorrer, D. Lehmann, E. Trubowitz); title: Quantum Groups from Path Integrals (Daniel S. Freed); title: Half-Transfer Matrices in Solvable Lattice Models (Tetsuji Miwa); title: Matrix Models as Integrable Systems (A. Morozov); title: Four Lectures on Localization, Equivariant Cohomology, and Integration Formulas (Antti J. Niemi); title: Systems of Calogero-Moser Type (S.N.M. Ruijsenaars); title: Discrete Gauge Theories (Mark de Wild Propitius, F. Alexander Bais); title: Quantum Hall Fluids as W1+Infinity Minimal Models (Andrea Cappelli, Carlo A. Trugenberger, Guillermo R. Zemba); title: On Spectral Theory of Quantum Vertex Operators (Pavel I. Etingof).