Low-dimensional topology and quantum field theory /

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Imprint:New York : Plenum Press, c1993.
Description:viii, 324 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language:English
Series:NATO ASI series. Series B, Physics v. 315
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1515887
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Varying Form of Title:Low dimensional topology and quantum field theory
Other authors / contributors:Osborn, Hugh
ISBN:0306445786
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Combinatorial recoupling theory and 3-manifold invariants / L. H. Kauffman
  • Quantum field theory and A,B,C,D IRF model invariants / O. J. Backofen
  • On combinatorial three-manifold invariants / G. Felder and O. Grandjean
  • Schwinger-Dyson equation in three dimensional simplicial quantum gravity / H. Ooguri
  • Observables in the Kontsevich model / P. Di Francesco
  • Matrix models in statistical mechanics and quantum field theory, recent examples and problems / G. M. Cicuta
  • Dilogarithms and W-algebras / W. Nahm
  • Dilogarithm identities and spectra in conformal field theory / A. N. Kirillov
  • Physical states in topological coset models / J. Sonnenschein
  • Finite W symmetry in finite dimensional integrable systems / T. Tjin
  • On the "Drinfeld-Sokolov" reduction of the Khizhnik-Zamolodchikov equation / P. Furlan, A. Ch. Ganchev, R. Paunov and V. B. Petkova
  • Noncritical dimensions for critical string theory: life beyond the Calabi-Yau frontier / R. Schimmrigk
  • [actual symbol not reproducible] algebra in two-dimensional black holes / T. Eguchi, H. Kanno and S. K. Yang
  • Graded Lie derivatives and short distance expansions in two dimensions / R. Dick
  • 2D Black holes and 2D gravity / F. Ardalan
  • The structure of finite dimensional affine Hecke algebra quotients and their realization in 2D lattice models / D. Levy
  • An exact renormalisation in a vertex model / B. W. Westbury
  • New representations of the Temperley-Lieb algebra with applications / H. N. V. Temperley
  • Order-disorder quantum symmetry in G-spin models / K. Szlachanyi
  • Quantum groups, quantum spacetime and Dirac equation / A. Schirrmacher
  • Hamiltonian structure of equations appearing in random matrices / J. Harnad, C. A. Tracy and H. Widom
  • On the existence of pointlike localized fields in conformally invariant quantum physics / M. Joerss
  • The phase space of the Wess-Zumino-Witten model / G. Papadopoulos and B. Spence
  • Regularization and renormalization of Chern-Simons theory / G. Giavarini, C. P. Martin and F. Ruiz Ruiz
  • Ray-Singer torsion, topological field theories and the Riemann zeta function at s = 3 / C. Nash and D. J. O'Connor
  • Monstrous moonshine and the uniqueness of the moonshine module / M. P. Tuite
  • Lie algebras and polynomial solutions of differential equations / A. Turbiner
  • Torus actions, moment maps, and the symplectic geometry of the moduli space of flat connections on a two-manifold / L. C. Jeffrey and J. Weitsman
  • Geometric quantization and Witten's semiclassical manifold invariants / L. C. Jeffrey and J. Weitsman.