Conformal Field Theory

New Non-perturbative Methods In String And Field Theory
1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-0-8133-4214-6
Verlag: CRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 416 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 626 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nutku, Yavuz

Saclioglu, Cihan

Turgut, Teoman

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Teoman Turgut