Conformal Invariance and String Theory

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Publisher: New York ;London Academic Press
Year: 1989
Tongue: English
Leaves: 553
Series: Perspectives in physics
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front Matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
Contributors, Page vii
LIST OF PARTICIPANTS, Pages ix-xii
Preface, Page xiii, Bucharest
FINITE TEMPERATURE 2-DIMENSIONAL QFT MODELS OF CONFORMAL CURRENT ALGEBRA, Pages 3-36, I.T. Todorov
Operator Content of Some c = 1 Models in Statistical Mechanics, Pages 37-61, V. Rittenberg
TWO DIMENSIONAL CRITICAL MODELS ON A TORUS, Pages 63-87, H. Saleur, P. di Francesco
WESS-ZUMINO-WITTEN MODELS AND OTHER TWO-DIMENSIONAL CRITICAL SYSTEMS, Pages 89-114, R. Flume
KAC-MOODY ALGEBRAS IN 2D CONFORMAL FIELD THEORIES, Pages 115-126, Peter Bouwknegt
CONFORMAL ALGEBRAS AND DEFECTS IN THE QUANTUM ISING CHAIN, Pages 127-145, Malte Henkel
CONFORMAL QUANTUM FIELD THEORIES AND INTEGRABLE SYSTEMS, Pages 147-161, M. KAROWSKI
STRING FIELD THEORY, Pages 165-203, I.Ya. Aref'eva
LIOUVILLE SUPERSTRINGS, Pages 205-241, Jean-Loup GERVAIS
GEOMETRY OF THE KALUZA-KLEIN THEORIES, Pages 243-284, Richard KERNER
DETERMINANTS OF LAPLACIANS ON RIEMANN SURFACES, Pages 285-291, Yu.I. Manin
REFLECTIONS ON ARITHMETICAL PHYSICS, Pages 293-303, Yu.I. Manin
STRINGS ON ORBIFOLDS: AN INTRODUCTION, Pages 305-334, Hans-Peter Nilles
Quantization of bosonic closed strings and the Liouville model, Pages 335-366, Sylvie Paycha
THE COVARIANT LATTICE CONSTRUCTION OF FOUR-DIMENSIONAL STRINGS, Pages 367-441, W. LERCHE, A.N. SCHELLEKENS
A COURSE ON DETERMINANTS, Pages 443-445, P. Cartier
PART ONE - DETERMINANTS IN THE FINITE DIMENSIONAL CASE, Pages 447-479
PART TWO - FREDHOLM DETERMINANTS, Pages 480-539
PART THREE - OVERVIEW OF RECENT DEVELOPMENTS, Pages 539-557
Perspectives in Physics, Page ibc1

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