1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910437879603321

Autore

Wang C. B

Titolo

Application of integrable systems to phase transitions / / C.B. Wang

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Springer, 2013

ISBN

3-642-38565-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 219 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Gale eBooks

Disciplina

530.474

Soggetti

Phase transformations (Statistical physics)

Statistical physics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Densities in Hermitian Matrix Models -- Bifurcation Transitions and Expansions -- Large-N Transitions and Critical Phenomena -- Densities in Unitary Matrix Models -- Transitions in the Unitary Matrix Models -- Marcenko-Pastur Distribution and McKay’s Law.

Sommario/riassunto

The eigenvalue densities in various matrix models in quantum chromodynamics (QCD) are ultimately unified in this book by a unified model derived from the integrable systems. Many new density models and free energy functions are consequently solved and presented. The phase transition models including critical phenomena with fractional power-law for the discontinuities of the free energies in the matrix models are systematically classified by means of a clear and rigorous mathematical demonstration. The methods here will stimulate new research directions such as the important Seiberg-Witten differential in Seiberg-Witten theory for solving the mass gap problem in quantum Yang-Mills theory. The formulations and results will benefit researchers and students in the fields of phase transitions, integrable systems, matrix models and Seiberg-Witten theory.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910962262503321

Autore

Welby Victoria, Lady, <1837-1912.>

Titolo

Significs and language : the articulate form of our expressive and interpretive resources / / by Victoria Lady Welby ; edited and introduced by H. Walter Schmitz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1985

ISBN

1-283-32866-6

9786613328663

90-272-7972-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (433 p.)

Collana

Foundations of semiotics, , 0168-2555 ; ; v. 5

Classificazione

ET 450

Altri autori (Persone)

SchmitzH. Walter

Disciplina

149/.946

Soggetti

Semantics (Philosophy)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Reprint of the edition London, 1911, and two articles by V. Welby."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

SIGNIFICS AND LANGUAGE The Articulate Form of our Expressive andInterpretative Resources; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; PREFACE; VICTORIA LADY WELBY'S SIGNIFICS: THE ORIGIN OF THE SIGNIFIC MOVEMENT; 1. The Rediscovery: A First Approach to Lady Welby and Her Significs; 2. The Origins and Development of Significs: A Biógraphical and Bibliographical Sketch of Lady Welby's Course of Thoughts; 2.1 The Sources of This Study; 2.2 The Development of an Independent Mind; 2.3 The Search for a Contemporary Interpretation of the Christian Doctrine

2.4 The Evolution of the Human Mind and the Neglected Problem of Meaning2.5 Significs: A New Science; 2.6 The Failure to Institutionalize Signifies; 3. Significs as a Communication Oriented Theory of Signs; 3.1 Lady Welby's Critique of Language and Terminology; 3.2 ""Translation"" and the Unity of Science; 3.3 ""Sense"", ""Meaning"" and ""Significance""; 4. Lady Welby's Influence on Some of Her Contemporaries; 4.1 André Lalande and the Terminology Critical Movement in France; 4.2 From F. Tönnies to the Vienna Circle; 4.3 George Frederick Stout

4.4 J. M. Baldwin and His Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology4.5 Some Comments and 'New' Documents on the Correspondence between C.S. Peirce and Lady Welby; 4.6 Bertrand Russell; 4.7 F.C.S. Schiller and ""The Meaning of 'Meaning'""; 4.8 Giovanni Vailati; 4.9 C.K.



Ogden's 'Apprenticeship' with Lady Welby; 4.10 Lady Welby and Significs in the Novels of H.G. Wells: Some Remarks; 5. Notes; 6. Bibliography; Thus Far Unpublished Essays by V. Lady Welby; Primal sense and significs; The Social Value of Expression; Notes; MEANING AND METAPHOR.; II.-SENSE, MEANING AND INTERPRETATION. (I)

III.-SENSE, MEANING AND INTERPRETATION. (II.)SUMMARY OF PART I.; SUMMARY OF PART II.; PREFACE; APPENDIX

Sommario/riassunto

This is the facsimile 1911 reprint of Victoria Lady Welby's very last publication Significs and Language. The Articulate form of our Expressive and Interpretative resources. This volume also includes two major essays from the author's hands, 'Meaning and Metaphor' (reprinted from The Monist 3:4, 1893), and 'Sense, Meaning and Interpretation' (reprinted from Mind 5:17 and 18, 1896), and a selection of several noteworthy and unpublished essays. In the introduction to this volume the editor H. Walter Schmitz exemplifies how Lady Welby developed her significs in discussion and cooper