Modern Group Theoretical Methods in Physics
Subtitle: Proceedings of the Conference in Honour of Guy Rideau
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published: 2010
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9789048145980
Subjects: Group theory; Mathematical physics
Description: This book contains the proceedings of a meeting that brought together friends and colleagues of Guy Rideau at the Université Denis Diderot (Paris, France) in January 1995. It contains original results as well as review papers covering important domains of mathematical physics, such as modern statistical mechanics, field theory, and quantum groups. The emphasis is on geometrical approaches. Several papers are devoted to the study of symmetry groups, including applications to nonlinear differential equations, and deformation of structures, in particular deformation-quantization and quantum groups. The richness of the field of mathematical physics is demonstrated with topics ranging from pure mathematics to up-to-date applications such as imaging and neuronal models. Audience: Researchers in mathematical physics.