The Large N Expansion in Quantum Field Theory and Statistical Physics
Subtitle: From Spin Systems to 2-Dimensional Gravity
Contributors: S. R. Wadia (Editor)
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Published: October 1991
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 1130
ISBN-13: 9789810204563
Subjects: Non-relativistic quantum mechanics; Theoretical methods; Physics; Gauge fields (Physics); Science; Science/Mathematics; Quantum Theory; String models; Quantum field theory
First sentence: The study of spin systems in the large N limit began with the paper of Stanley [1], who studied the N vector model using saddle point techniques.