Conformal Field Theories and Integrable Models Lectures Held at the Eötvös Graduate Course, Budapest, Hungary, 13-18 August 1996 /

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• Other Authors: Horvath, Zalan (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Palla, Laszlo (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1997.
• Edition: 1st ed. 1997.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 498
• Subjects: Elementary particles (Physics).; Quantum field theory.; Statistical physics.; Dynamical systems.; Quantum computers.; Spintronics.; Quantum physics.; Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory.; Complex Systems.; Quantum Information Technology, Spintronics.; Quantum Physics.; Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems.

In the last few years we have witnessed an upsurge of interest in exactly solvable quantum field theoretical models in many branches of theoretical physics ranging from mathematical physics through high-energy physics to solid states. This book contains six pedagogically written articles meant as an...

Table of Contents:

• Lectures on conformal field theory and kac-moody algebras
• W-algebras and their representations
• Exact S-matrices
• to simple integrable models of quantum field theory
• to the coordinate-space bethe ansatz and to the treatment of bethe ansatz equations
• Thermodynamical bethe ansatz and condensed matter.