Quantum Fields and Quantum Space Time

Gerard T Hooft

ISBN 10: 0306456974 / ISBN 13: 9780306456978

Editore: Springer US, Springer New York, 1997

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - The 1996 NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI) followed the international tradi tion of the schools held in Cargese in 1976, 1979, 1983, 1987 and 1991. Impressive progress in quantum field theory had been made since the last school in 1991. Much of it is connected with the interplay of quantum theory and the structure of space time, including canonical gravity, black holes, string theory, application of noncommutative differential geometry, and quantum symmetries. In addition there had recently been important advances in quantum field theory which exploited the electromagnetic duality in certain supersymmetric gauge theories. The school reviewed these developments. Lectures were included to explain how the 'monopole equations' of Seiberg and Witten can be exploited. They were presented by E. Rabinovici, and supplemented by an extra 2 hours of lectures by A. Bilal. Both the N = 1 and N = 2 supersymmetric Yang Mills theory and resulting equivalences between field theories with different gauge group were discussed in detail. There are several roads to quantum space time and a unification of quantum theory and gravity. There is increasing evidence that canonical gravity might be a consistent theory after all when treated in. a nonperturbative fashion. H. Nicolai presented a series of introductory lectures. He dealt in detail with an integrable model which is obtained by dimensional reduction in the presence of a symmetry.

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• Titolo: Quantum Fields and Quantum Space Time
• Editore: Springer US, Springer New York
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0306456974
• ISBN 13: 9780306456978
• Rilegatura: Buch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 260 L x 183 A x 26 P (millimetri) 260 millimetri di larghezza per 183 millimetri di altezza per 26 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 925 grammi

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The 1996 NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI) followed the international tradi­ tion of the schools held in Cargese in 1976, 1979, 1983, 1987 and 1991. Impressive progress in quantum field theory had been made since the last school in 1991. Much of it is connected with the interplay of quantum theory and the structure of space time, including canonical gravity, black holes, string theory, application of noncommutative differential geometry, and quantum symmetries. In addition there had recently been important advances in quantum field theory which exploited the electromagnetic duality in certain supersymmetric gauge theories. The school reviewed these developments. Lectures were included to explain how the "monopole equations" of Seiberg and Witten can be exploited. They were presented by E. Rabinovici, and supplemented by an extra 2 hours of lectures by A. Bilal. Both the N = 1 and N = 2 supersymmetric Yang Mills theory and resulting equivalences between field theories with different gauge group were discussed in detail. There are several roads to quantum space time and a unification of quantum theory and gravity. There is increasing evidence that canonical gravity might be a consistent theory after all when treated in. a nonperturbative fashion. H. Nicolai presented a series of introductory lectures. He dealt in detail with an integrable model which is obtained by dimensional reduction in the presence of a symmetry.

Contenuti

Lectures: Non-communicative Gauge Fields from Quantum Groups A.Yu. Alekseev, V. Schomerus. Duality in N=2 SUSY SU(2) Yang-Mills Theory: A Pedagogical Introduction; A. Bilal. Noncommunicative Differential Geometry and the Structure of Space Time; A. Connes. Quantum Integrable Models on 1+1 Discrete Space Time; L. Faddeev, A. Volkov. Supersymmetry and Non-Communicative Geometry; J. Fröhlich, et al. Turbulence under a Magnifying Glass; K. Gawedzki. Quantization of Space and Time in 3 and in 4 Space-Time Dimensions; G. 't Hooft. Pushing Einstein's Principles to the Extreme; G. Mack. Integrable Classical and Quantum Gravity; H. Nicolai, et al. Quantum Affine Algebras and Integrable Quantum Systems; V. Chari, A. Pressley. Seminars: T-Duality and the Moment Map; C. Klimcik, P. Severa. Symmetries of Dimensionally Reduced String Effective Action; J. Maharana. Non Local Observables and Confinement in BF Formulation of Yang-Mills Theory; F. Fucito, et al. Disorder Operators, Quantum Doubles, and Haag Duality in 1+1 Dimensions; M. Müger. The Cohomology and Homology of Quantum Field Theory; J.E. Roberts. 2 Additional Lectures. Index.