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Springer New Developments In Quantum Field Theory 1998 Edition by Poul Henrik Damgaard Jerzy Jurkiewicz
Quantum field theory is one of most central constructions in 20th century th- retical physics and it continues to develop rapidly in many different directions. The aim of the workshop "New Developments in Quantum Field Theory" which was held in Zakopane Poland June 14-20 1997 was to capture a broad selection of the most recent advances in this field. The conference was sponsored by the Scientific and - vironmental Affairs Division of NATO as part of the Advanced Research Workshop series. This book contains the proceedings of that meeting. Major topics covered at the workshop include quantized theories of gravity string theory conformal field theory cosmology field theory approaches to critical phenomena and the renormalization group matrix models and field theory techniques applied to the theory of turbulence. One common theme at the conference was the use of large-Nmatrix models to obtain exact results in a variety of different disciplines. For example it has been known for several years that by taking a suitable double-scaling limit certain string theories (or two-dimensional quantum gravity coupled to matter) can be re-obtained from the large-Nexpansion of matrix models. There continues to be a large activity in this area of research which was well reflected by talks given at our workshop. Remarkably large- Nmatrix models have very recently - just a few months before our meeting - been shown to have yet another deep relation to string theory. Table of contents : Lecturers: The Structure of 2D Quantum Space-Time; J. Ambjorn. Scaling Laws in Turbulence; K. Gawedzki. Field Theory as Free Fall; A. Carlini J. Greensite. Center Dominance Center Vortices and Confinement; L.D. Debbio et al. Duality and the Renormalization Group; P.E. Haagensen. Unification of the General Nonlinear Sigma Model and the Virasoro Master Equation; J. de Boer M. Halpern. A Matrix Model Solution of the Hirota Equation; V.A. Kazakov. Lattice Approximation of Quantum Electrodynamics; J. Kijowski G. Rudolph. Seminar Speakers: Collective Dynamics of a Domain Wall; H. Arodz. Path Space Formulation of the BFV Theorem; K. Bering. Surplus Anomaly and Random Geoetries; P. Bialas et al. Topological Contents of 3D Seiberg-Witten Theory; B. Broda. Free Strings in Noncritical Dimensions; M. Daszkiewicz et al. Seiberg-Witten Theory Integrable Systems and D-Branes; A. Marshakov. Microscopic Universality in random Matrix Models of QCD; S.M. Nishigaki. New Developments in Non-Hermitian Random Matrix Models; R.A. Janik et al. 11 Additional Articles. Index.