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Differential geometry and physics : proceedings of the 23rd International Conference of Differential Geometric Methods in Theoretical Physics, Tianjin, China, 20-26 August 2005 / editors, Mo-Lin Ge & Weiping Zhang.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Author/Creator:
- International Conference on Differential Geometric Methods in Theoretical Physics, Corporate Author.
- Conference Name:
- International Conference on Differential Geometric Methods in Theoretical Physics (23rd : 2005 : Tianjin, China)
- International Conference on Differential Geometric Methods in Theoretical Physics
- Series:
- Nankai tracts in mathematics ; v. 10.
- Nankai tracts in mathematics ; v. 10
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Geometry, Differential--Congresses.
- Geometry, Differential.
- Mathematical physics--Congresses.
- Mathematical physics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (542 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference of Differential Geometric Methods in Theoretical Physics, Tianjin, China, 20-26 August 2005
- Place of Publication:
- Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volumes provides a comprehensive review of interactions between differential geometry and theoretical physics, contributed by many leading scholars in these fields. The contributions promise to play an important role in promoting the developments in these exciting areas. Besides the plenary talks, the coverage includes: models and related topics in statistical physics; quantum fields, strings and M-theory; Yang-Mills fields, knot theory and related topics; K-theory, including index theory and non-commutative geometry; mirror symmetry, conformal and topological quantum field theory; devel
- Contents:
- CONTENTS ; Foreword by Michael Atiyah ; Foreword by Chen Ning Yang ; Preface ; Plenary Lectures ; Yangian and Applications ; The hypoelliptic Laplacian and Chern-Gauss-Bonnet; S. S. Chern and Chern-Simons Terms ; Localization and Conjectures from String Duality
- Topologization of Electron Liquids with Chern-Simons Theory and Quantum Computation Invited Contributions ; Quasicrystals: Projections of 5-d Lattice into 2 and 3 Dimensions ; Theoretical Analysis of the Double Spin Chain Compound KCuCl3; Applications of Geometric Cluster Algorithms
- Equivariant Cohomology and Localization for Lie Algebroids and Applications Directed Percolation in Two Dimensions: An Exact Solution ; Generalized Drinfeld Polynomials for Highest Weight Vectors of the Borel Subalgebra of the sl2 Loop Algebra; On the Physical Significance of q-deformation in Many-body Physics
- A Matrix Product Ansatz Solution of an Exactly Solvable Interacting Vertex Model A 2h-dimensional Model with Virasoro Symmetry ; 3-dimensional Integrable Lattice Models and the Bazhanov- Stroganov Model ; Exact Solution of Two Planar Polygon Models
- Quasi-exact Solvability of Dirac Equations Exotic Galilean Symmetry, Non-commutativity & the Hall Effect ; The Energy-momentum and Related Topics in Gravitational Radiation ; Quantum Operators and Hermitian Vector Fields ; Electric-magnetic Duality Beyond Four Dimensions and in General Relativity
- Topology and Quantum Information
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9786611912062
- 9781281912060
- 1281912069
- 9789812772527
- 9812772529
- OCLC:
- 879023566
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