Physics, Geometry and Topology

By H. C. Lee

I LECTURES - Banff NATO ASI Physics, Geometry & Topology.- Field Theory Methods and Strongly Correlated Electrons.- Braid Statistics in Three-Dimensional Local Quantum Theory.- On the Algebraic Structure of the BRST Symmetry.- Black Hole Quantization and a Connection to String Theory.- An Introduction to General Topology and Quantum Topology.- Topics in Planar Physics.- to Conformal Field Theory and Infinite Dimensional Algebras.- Lectures on RCFT.- Chern-Simons Gauge Theory and the Spin-Statistics Connection in Two Dimensional Quantum Mechanics.- Yang-Baxter Algebras, Integrable Theories and Quantum Groups.- Symmetry and Functional Integration.- Topological Aspects of the Quantum Hall Effect.- II SEMINARS - Workshop on Physics, Braids & Links.- The Nonabelian Chern-Simons Term with Sources and Braid Source Statistics.- The Quantum Group Method of Quantising the Special Linear Group SL(2, C).- 2+1 Dimensional Quantum Gravity and the Braid Group.- Finite Renormalization of Chern-Simons Gauge Theory.- A New Family of N-State Representations of the Braid Group.- Link Polynomials and Solvable Models.- Integrable Restrictions of Quantum Soliton Theory and Minimal Conformal Series.- Tangles, Links and Twisted Quantum Groups.- Participants (Group photo, pg 656).

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306436930
• ISBN13: 9780306436932
• Release Date: February 1991
• Publisher: Plenum Publishing Corporation
• Length: 696 Pages
• Weight: 2.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.7" x 9.6"