Fields and Particles: Proceedings of the XXIX Int. Universitatswochen fur Kernphysik, Schladming, Austria, March 1990 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3540531785 ISBN 13: 9783540531784

Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K, 1991

Synopsis

This volume contains the written versions of invited lectures presented at the 29th "Internationale Universitatswochen fiir Kernphysik" in Schladming, Aus- tria, in March 1990. The generous support of our sponsors, the Austrian Ministry of Science and Research, the Government of Styria, and others, made it possible to invite expert lecturers. In choosing the topics of the course we have tried to select some of the currently most fiercely debated aspects of quantum field theory. It is a pleasure for us to thank all the speakers for their excellent presentations and their efforts in preparing the lecture notes. After the school the lecture notes were revised by the authors and partly rewritten ~n '!EX. We are also indebted to Mrs. Neuhold for the careful typing of those notes which we did not receive in '!EX. Graz, Austria H. Mitter July 1990 W. Schweiger Contents An Introduction to Integrable Models and Conformal Field Theory By H. Grosse (With 6 Figures) ...1 1. Introduction ...1 1.1 Continuous Integrable Models ...1 1.2 "Solvable" Models of Statistical Physics ...2 1.3 The Yang-Baxter Relation ...3 1.4 Braids and I(nots ...3 1.5 Confonnal Field Theory d = 2 ...3 2. Integrable Continuum Models - The Inverse Scattering Method - Solitons ...4 2.1 A General Scheme for Solving (Linear) Problems ...4 2.2 The Direct Step ...6 2.3 The Inverse Step ...

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This volume contains a series of lectures written for researchers and graduate students, which includes many strongly debated aspects of quantum field theory including anomalies, chiral-symmetry breaking, phase transitions, integrable models and quantum groups. The book concludes with a status report on the high-energy accelerator LEP and its implications for the standard electroweak model.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540531785
• ISBN 13: 9783540531784
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 296
• Editor: Mitter Heinrich, Schweiger Wolfgang