Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Physics, Geometry and Topology

  • Book
  • © 1990

Overview

Editors:
  1. H. C. Lee

    1. Chalk River Laboratories, Chalk River, Canada

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

Part of the book series: NATO Science Series B: (NSSB, volume 238)

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Lectures on Physics, Geometry & Topology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages ix-ix
      Download chapter PDF

    2. Field Theory Methods and Strongly Correlated Electrons

      • Ian Affleck
      Pages 1-13

    3. Braid Statistics in Three-Dimensional Local Quantum Theory

      • J. Fröhlich, F. Gabbiani, P.-A. Marchetti
      Pages 15-79

    4. On the Algebraic Structure of the BRST Symmetry

      • Marc Henneaux
      Pages 81-104

    5. Black Hole Quantization and a Connection to String Theory

      • Gerard’t Hooft
      Pages 105-128

    6. An Introduction to General Topology and Quantum Topology

      • C. J. Isham
      Pages 129-189

    7. Topics in Planar Physics

      • R. Jackiw
      Pages 191-239

    8. Introduction to Conformal Field Theory and Infinite Dimensional Algebras

      • David Olive
      Pages 241-261

    9. Lectures on RCFT

      • Gregory Moore, Nathan Seiberg
      Pages 263-361

    10. Chern-Simons Gauge Theory and Spin-Statistics Connection in 2 Dimensional Quantum Mechanics

      • G. W. Semenoff
      Pages 363-385

    11. Yang-Baxter Algebras, Integrable Theories and Quantum Groups

      • H. J. De Vega
      Pages 387-434

    12. Symmetry and Functional Integration

      • C.-M. Viallet
      Pages 435-460

    13. Topological Aspects of the Quantum Hall Effect

      • Yong-Shi Wu
      Pages 461-491

  3. Seminars on Physics, Braids & Links

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 492-492
      Download chapter PDF

    2. The Nonabelian Chern-Simons Term with Sources and Braid Source Statistics

      • M. Bourdeau
      Pages 493-512

    3. The Quantum Group Methods of Quantising the Special Linear Group Sl(2,C)

      • Nigel Burroughs
      Pages 513-539

    4. 2+1 Dimensional Quantum Gravity and the Braid Group

      • Steven Carlip
      Pages 541-551

    5. Finite Renormalization of Cherns-Simons Gauge Theory

      • Wei Chen, Gordon W. Semenoff, Yong-shi Wu
      Pages 553-572

    6. A New Family of N-State Representations of the Braid Group

      • M. Couture, H. C. Lee, N. C. Schmeing
      Pages 573-582
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

The Banff NATO Summer School was held August 14-25, 1989 at the Banff Cen­ tre, Banff, Albert, Canada. It was a combination of two venues: a summer school in the annual series of Summer School in Theoretical Physics spon­ sored by the Theoretical Physics Division, Canadian Association of Physi­ cists, and a NATO Advanced Study Institute. The Organizing Committee for the present school was composed of G. Kunstatter (University of Winnipeg), H.C. Lee (Chalk River Laboratories and University of Western Ontario), R. Kobes (University of Winnipeg), D.l. Toms (University of Newcastle Upon Tyne) and Y.S. Wu (University of Utah). Thanks to the group of lecturers (see Contents) and the timeliness of the courses given, the school, entitled PHYSICS, GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY, was popular from the very outset. The number of applications outstripped the 90 places of accommodation reserved at the Banff Centre soon after the school was announced. As the eventual total number of participants was increased to 170, it was still necessary to tum away many deserving applicants. In accordance with the spirit of the school, the geometrical and topologi­ cal properties in each of the wide ranging topics covered by the lectures were emphasized. A recurring theme in a number of the lectures is the Yang-Baxter relation which characterizes a very large class of integrable systems including: many state models, two-dimensional conformal field theory, quantum field theory and quantum gravity in 2 + I dimensions.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Chalk River Laboratories, Chalk River, Canada

    H. C. Lee

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Physics, Geometry and Topology

  • Editors: H. C. Lee

  • Series Title: NATO Science Series B:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3802-8

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1990

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-43693-2Published: 28 February 1991

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-6695-9Published: 30 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-3802-8Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0258-1221

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 681

  • Topics: Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation