Conformal Invariance and Applications to Statistical Mechanics

by Claude Itzykson (Editor), H Saleur (Editor), Jean-Bernard Zuber (Editor)

This volume contains Introductory Notes and major reprints on conformal field theory and its applications to 2-dimensional statistical mechanics of critical phenomena. The subject relates to many different areas in contemporary physics and mathematics, including string theory, integrable systems, representations of infinite Lie algebras and automorphic functions.

994 pages, Hardcover

First published September 29, 1998