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Advanced Series in Mathematical Physics - Vol. 24
THE MATHEMATICAL BEAUTY OF PHYSICS
A Memorial Volume for Claude Itzykson
Saclay, France 5 - 7 June 1996
edited by J M Drouffe & J B Zuber (CEN-Saclay)
This volume gathers contributions to the conference in memory of Claude Itzykson held in Saclay in June 1996. As an hommage to the great variety of interests of this distinguished scientist, latest developments in topics of current activity are covered, in various branches of mathematical physics and mathematics: conformal field theory, strings and topology, disordered systems, chaos and number theory.
Contents:
- Dyson's Universality in Generalized Ensembles of Random
Matrices (E Brézin)
- Meanders (Ph di Francesco et al.)
- Exercises in Equivariant Cohomology and Topological Theories (R Stora)
- N = 2 Superconformal Field Theories in 4 Dimensional and A-D-E Classification (T Eguchi & K Hori)
- Period Functions and the Selberg Zeta Function for the Modular Group (J Lewis & D Zagier)
- Statistical Properties of Random Matrices and the Replica Method (G Parisi)
- Renormalisation Group Approach to Reaction-Diffusion Problems (J Cardy)
- Zero Temperature Glauber Dynamics of the 1d Potts Model (B Derrida)
- The Verlinde Formula for PGLp (A Beauville)
- Galois Actions for Genus One Rational Conformal Field Theories (M Bauer)
- Softly Broken N = 2 QCD (L Álvarez-Gaumé & M Mariño)
- Polygons Billiards and Aperiodic Tilings (J M Luck)
- Physics and Arithmetic Chaos in the Fourier Transform (M C Gutzwiller)
- Quantum and Optical Arithmetic and Fractals (M V Berry)
- Correlations and Transport in One-Dimensional Quantum Impurity Problems (F Lesage & H Saleur)
- Lyapunov Exponents and Hodge Theory (M Kontsevich)
- Gauge Dynamics and Compactification to Three Dimensions (N Seiberg & E Witten)
Readership: Mathematical and theoretical physics.
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Pub. date: Apr 1997 |
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