Conformal Field Theory - New Non-Perturbative Methods in String and Field Theory

Informationen zum Autor Teoman Turgut Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. 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

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• Authors: Yavuz Nutku, Yavuz Saclioglu Nutku, Nutku Yavuz, Cihan Saclioglu, Saclioglu Cihan, Teoman Turgut, Turgut Teoman
• Assisted by: Yavuz Nutku (Editor), Cihan Saclioglu (Editor), Teoman Turgut (Editor)
• Publisher: Perseus Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.01.2004
• EAN: 9780813342146
• ISBN: 978-0-8133-4214-6
• No. of pages: 416
• Series: Frontiers in Physics
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias; SCIENCE / Physics / General, Physics