Nonperturbative quantum-field-theoretic methods and their applications : proceedings of the 24th Johns Hopkins Workshop, Bolyai College, Budapest, Hungary, 19-21 August 2000 / / edited by Z. Horvath and L. Palla

• Pubblicazione: River Edge, NJ, : World Scientific, 2001
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (471 p.)
• Disciplina: 530.14
• Soggetto topico: Quantum field theory; Statistical mechanics
• Altri autori: HorváthZ PallaL
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: CONTENTS ; Foreword ; Conformal Boundary Conditions - and What They Teach Us ; 0. Introduction ; 1. A lightning review of CFT ; 2. Boundary Conformal Field Theory ; 3. Boundary Operator Algebra ; 4. Generalised twisted boundary conditions ; 5. The underlying quantum algebra ; 6. Integrable lattice models References ; Conformal Field Theory, Boundary Conditions and Applications to String Theory; 1 Introduction and Overview ; 2 Two-dimensional manifolds ; 3 Algebraic aspects of chiral CFT: Vertex operator algebras ; 4 Geometric aspects of chiral CFT: Conformal blocks ; 5 Full CFT ; 6 Applications to string compactifications 7 Conclusions ; References ; Boundary Renormalisation Group Flows of Minimal Models ; 1 The unitary minimal models ; 2 Boundary perturbations ; 3 Perturbation theory ; 4 The Truncated Conformal Space Approach ; 5 The limit c -> 1 of the minimal model boundary conditions 6 Conclusions ; References ; A Physical Basis for the Entropy of the AdS3 Black Hole ; 1 Introduction ; 2 Chern-Simons Action and Boundary Effects ; 3 The Coupling of a source ; 4 Ground State Eigenvalues ; 5 The Entropy of the AdS3 Black Hole Spinon Formulation of the Kondo Problem ; 1 Introduction ; 2 Magnon formulation ; 3 The spinon formulation ; 4 Impurity behavior at low temperature ; 5 Impurity behavior at high temperature ; 6 Numerical solution ; References ; From Surface Roughening to QCD String Theory
• Sommario/riassunto: <br><i>Contents:</i><ul><li>Conformal Boundary Conditions - and What They Teach Us <i>(V B Petkova & J-B Zuber)</i></li><li>A Physical Basis for the Entropy of the AdS3 Black Hole <i>(S Fernando & F Mansouri)</i></li><li>Spinon Formulation of the Kondo Problem <i>(A Klümper & J R Reyes-Martinez)</i></li><li>Boundary Integrable Quantum Field Theories <i>(P Dorey)</i></li><li>Finite Size Effects in Integrable Quantum Field Theories <i>(F Ravanini)</i></li><li>Nonperturbative Analysis of the Two-Frequency Sine-Gordon Model <i>(Z Bajnok et al.)</i></li><li>Screening in Hot SU(2) Gauge Theory and
• Titolo autorizzato: Nonperturbative quantum-field-theoretic methods and their applications
• ISBN: 9786611951504; 9781281951502; 1281951501; 9789812799968; 9812799966
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9911142926703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II