Conformal Field Theory: New Non-Perturbative Methods in String and Field Theory
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This book consists of pedagogical lectures delivered at the Feza Gursey Institute in 1998 on non-perturbative approaches, or conformal field theory, the newer subject area that combines the work of physicists and mathematicians in an effort to extend understanding beyond the current, accepted notions of quantum field theory. Quantum field theory has been with us for over 75 years, but it only in the last 25 that physicists and mathematicians have jointly ventured out to explore its realms beyond the reach of perturbation theory, to the great benefit of both disciplines. Conformal Field Theory consists of pedagogical lectures delivered at the Feza Gursey Institute, Istanbul, in the summer of 1998 on some of these non-perturbative approaches. The topics of these lectures are central to our emerging understanding of conformal field theory and its importance to both statistical mechanics and string theory. Lectures include Wess-Zumino-Novikov-Witten models, the WZNW model as a prototype of general CFT models, meromorphic CFT, Monstrous Moonshine and the classification of CFT, the non-perturbative dynamics of four-dimensional models, and a derivation of the hadronic structure functions from quantum chromodynamics. The book is suitable for advanced graduate students and researchers in theoretical particle or statistical physics as well as pure mathematicians.
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A textbook and reference for graduate students and researchers, as well as pure mathematicians, offering a collection of lectures given at the feza Gursey Institute in Istanbul in the summer of 1998, discussing non-perturbative approaches to quantum field theory.
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Conformal Field Theory: New Non-Perturbative Methods in String and Field Theory
Conformal Field Theory: New Non-Perturbative Methods in String and Field Theory (Frontiers in Physics S.),Cihan Saclioglu,Teoman Turgut,Yavuz Nutku,Westview Press,0813342147,Applied,Mathematical Models,Physics,Quantum Field Theory,Quantum Theory,Science,Science/Mathematics,Relativistic quantum mechanics & quantum field theory
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