Conformal Field Theories and Integrable Models: Lectures Held at the Eötvös Graduate Course, Budapest, Hungary, 13–18 August 1996 [1 ed.]
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In the last few years we have witnessed an upsurge of interest in exactly solvable quantum field theoretical models in m
Table of contents : Lectures on conformal field theory and kac-moody algebras....Pages 1-54 W-algebras and their representations....Pages 55-84 Exact S-matrices....Pages 85-125 Introduction to simple integrable models of quantum field theory....Pages 126-150 Introduction to the coordinate-space bethe ansatz and to the treatment of bethe ansatz equations....Pages 151-203 Thermodynamical bethe ansatz and condensed matter....Pages 204-250