Integrable Systems, Quantum Groups, and Quantum Field Theories

ISBN-13: 9780792323969 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 516 str.

L. a. Ibort; M. a. Rodriguez; M. A. Rodriguez

Opis

Proceedings of the June 1992 NATO Advanced Study Institute, conceived as a preparatory school for the XIXth International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics, which was held in Salamanca the following week. This necessitated coverage of a wide range of problems in mathematical physics

Spis treści

Preface. From Integrable Models to Conformal Field Theory via Quantum Groups; L.D. Faddeev. A Brief History of Hidden Quantum Symmetries in Conformal Field Theories; C. Gómez, G. Sierra. q-Deformation of Semisimple and Non-Semisimple Lie Algebras; H. Ruegg. Quantum Algebras and Quantum Groups in q-Special Function Theory; R. Floreanini, L. Vinet. Lectures in Topological Quantum Field Theory; D.S. Freed. Canonical Quantum Gravity and the Problem of Time; C.J. Isham. Higher Symmetries in Lower-Dimensional Models; R. Jackiw. Three Lectures on Supersymmetry and Extended Objects; P.K. Townsend. The Geometric Phase in Quantum Physics; A. Bohm. Quantum Mechanics on Phase Space; M. Gadella. Lie Groups and Solutions of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations; P. Winternitz. Index.