The mathematical beauty of physics : a memorial volume for Claude Itzykson : Saclay, France, 5-7 June 1996

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The mathematical beauty of physics : a memorial volume for Claude Itzykson : Saclay, France, 5-7 June 1996

editors, J.M. Drouffe, J.B. Zuber

(Advanced series in mathematical physics / editors-in-charge, D.H. Phong, S.-T. Yan, vol. 24)

World Scientific, c1997

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This volume gathers contributions to the conference in memory of Claude Itzykson held in Saclay in June 1996. As an hommage to the great variety of interests of this distinguished scientist, latest developments in topics of current activity are covered, in various branches of mathematical physics and mathematics: conformal field theory, strings and topology, disordered systems, chaos and number theory.

Table of Contents

  • Softly broken N=2 QCD, L. Alvarez-Gaume
  • would Galois have liked conformal field theories?, M. Bauer
  • towards a Verlinde formula for non simply connected groups, A. Beauville
  • exact solution of one-dimensional growth models, B. Derrida
  • meanders, Ph. Di Francesco
  • study of 4-dimensional superconformal field theories, T. Eguchi
  • from rational polygons to self-similar tilings of the plane, J.-M. Luck
  • random matrices and the replica method, G. Parisi
  • moduli spaces of curves, D. Zagier.

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