Perspectives in mathematical physics
By: edited by Robert Penner, Shing-Tung Yau.
Contributors: Penner, R. C., 1956-; Yau, Shing-Tung, 1949-
Series: Conference proceedings and lecture notes in mathematical physics ;; v. 3
Publisher: International Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
Subjects: Mathematical physics -- Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Combined proceedings of four conferences on mathematical physics, all held in 1992. Cf. pref. and bibliographical footnotes.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Geometrical origin of integrability for Liouville and Toda theory / K. Aoki & E. D'Hoker; title: Chern-Simons perturbation theory II / S. Axelrod & I.M. Singer; title: Curved spacetime geometry for strings and affine non-compact algebras / I. Bars; title: On the BRST structure of [omega]₃ gravity coupled to c=2 matter / P. Bouwknegt, J. McCarthy & K. Pilch; title: Billiards, Poncelet's theorem, and integrable field theories / S.J. Chang; title: Canonical quantization of Yang-Mills theories / H. Cheng; title: Yang-Lee-Fisher zeros and Julia sets / B. Hu; title: A construction of generalized spin models / V.G. Kac & M. Wakimoto; title: Algebraic theory of the KP equations / M. Mulase; title: On some algebraic structures arising in string theory / M. Penkava & A. Schwarz; title: The Poincaré dual of Weil-Petersson Kähler two-form / R.C. Penner; title: Topological properties of Calabi-Yau mirror manifold / S.S. Roan; title: Closed string field theory, strong homotopy Lie algebras and the operad actions of moduli spaces / J. Stasheff.; title: QCD : from low energy to high energy / T.M. Yan; title: Fullerenes and carbon 60 / C.N. Yang.