The Oskar Klein memorial lectures. Volume 3 / editors Lars Berstrom & Ulf Lindstrom.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Berstrom, Lars.

Lindström, Ulf.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Physics.

Quantum theory.

Physicists--Sweden--Biography.

Physicists.

Klein, Oskar.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (139 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Singapore ; Teaneck, N.J. : World Scientific, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is an invaluable collection of colloquium-type lectures given by some of the most prominent theoretical physicists of today. In a form accessible to the interested general physicist, it covers topics ranging from the use of field-theoretical methods in different contexts via duality symmetries between various field theories, to the Ads/CFT correspondence and cosmology.<br><i>Contents: </i><ul><li>The Weak Interaction: Its History and Impact on Physics <i>(T D Lee)</i></li><li>Electron Orbits and Superconductivity of Carbon 60 <i>(T D Lee)</i></li><li>The Power of Duality - Exact Results

Contents:

CONTENTS ; Preface ; The Weak Interaction: Its History and Impact on Physics ; 1. Classical Period (B Decay) ; 2. Classical Period (Other Weak Interactions) ; 3. Transition Period (1949-1956) ; 4. New Horizon In The Transition Period ; 5. The Breakthrough (1956)

6. Symmetry Violations 7. Time Reversal ; 8. Present Status ; 9. Physical Vacuum ; 10. Phase Diagram Of The QCD Vacuum; 11. ππ-Interferometry ; 12. Concluding Remarks ; References ; Electron Orbits and Superconductivity of Carbon 60 ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Icosahedral Group ; 3. C60 ; 4. Pairing Mechanism ; 5. K3 C60

References The Power of Duality - Exact Results in 4D SUSY Field Theory ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Duality in electrodynamics ; 3. The Dynamics of Supersymmetric Field Theories ; 4. Results - duality in non-Abelian theories ; 5. Conclusions ; References

String Theory as a Universal Language Abstract ; 1 Introduction ; 2 The image of gluons and zigzag symmetry ; 3 The D-brane picture ; 4 Conformal gauge theories in higher dimensions ; 5 Infrared screening of the cosmological constant and other speculations ; References

The Cosmological Tests 1. Introduction ; 2. The Classical Tests ; 3. The Paradigm Shift to Low Mass Density ; 4. Issues of Structure Formation ; 5. Concluding Remarks ; References ; Anti-de Sitter Space, Thermal Phase Transition and Confinement in Gauge Theories; 1. Introduction ; 2. High Temperatures And AdS Black Holes

3. High Temperature Behavior Of The N = 4 Theory

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786611951412

9781281951410

1281951412

9789812799869

9812799869

OCLC:

879025595