Yavuz Nutku, Cihan Saclioglu, Teoman Turgut

Conformal Field Theory

New Non-perturbative Methods In String And Field Theory

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides an understanding of conformal field theory and its importance to both statistical mechanics and string theory. It introduces the Wess-Zumino-Novokov-Witten (WZNW) models and their current algebras, the affine Kac-Moody algebras.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Longman Publishing Group
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Februar 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 608g
• ISBN-13: 9780813342146
• ISBN-10: 0813342147
• Artikelnr.: 21464506

Autorenporträt

Teoman Turgut

Inhaltsangabe

Editor's Foreword
Preface
Conformal field theory: a case study
Non
Perturbative Dynamics Of Four
Dimensional Supersymmetric Field Theories
An introduction to meromorphic conformal field theory and its representations
Derivation of the Hadronic Structure Functions From Quantum Chromodynamics
Introduction
Two
Dimensional Quantum Hadron Dynamics
Solitons
The Parton Model
Beyond the Valence Parton Model
Monstrous Moonshine and the Classification of CFT
Part 1. The classification of conformal field theories
Part 2. Monstrous Moonshine
Affine Kac
Moody Algebras and the Wess
Zumino
Witten Model Mark Walton