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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454378803321

Titolo

Geometric methods for quantum field theory [[electronic resource] ] : proceedings of the summer school : Villa de Leyva, Colombia, 12-30 July 1999 / / editors, Hernan Ocampo, Sylvie Paycha, Andres Reyes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore ; ; River Edge, N.J., : World Scientific, c2001

ISBN

1-281-95625-2

9786611956257

981-281-057-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (530 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

OcampoHernan

PaychaSylvie

ReyesAndrés

Disciplina

530.143

Soggetti

Quantum field theory

Field theory (Physics)

Electronic books.

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.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction; CONTENTS; Lectures; Lecture 1: Introduction to differentiable manifolds and symplectic geometry; Lecture 2: Spectral properties of the Dirac operator and geometrical structures; Lecture 3: Quantum theory of fermion systems: Topics between physics and mathematics; Lecture 4: Heat equation and spectral geometry. Introduction for beginners; Lecture 5: Renormalized traces as a geometric tool; Lecture 6: Concepts in gauge theory leading to electric-magnetic duality; Lecture 7: An introduction to Seiberg-Witten theory; Short Communications

Remarks on duality analytic torsion and gaussian integration in antisymmetric field theoriesMultiplicative anomaly for the C-regularized determinant; On cohomogeneity one Riemannian manifolds; A differentiable calculus on the space of loops and connections; Quantum Hall conductivity and topological invariants; Determinant of the Dirac operator over the interval [0 B]

Sommario/riassunto

Both mathematics and mathematical physics have many active areas of



research where the interplay between geometry and quantum field theory has proved extremely fruitful. Duality, gauge field theory, geometric quantization, Seiberg-Witten theory, spectral properties and families of Dirac operators, and the geometry of loop groups offer some striking recent examples of modern topics which stand on the borderline between geometry and analysis on the one hand and quantum field theory on the other, where the physicist's and the mathematician's perspective complement each other, leading to new mathe