Integrable Systems

American Mathem

ISBN 10: 0821820931 / ISBN 13: 9780821820933

Published by American Mathematical Society, US, 2000

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This volume presents the papers based upon lectures given at the 1999 Seminaire de Mathematiques Superieurs held in Montreal. It includes contributions from many of the most active researchers in the field. This subject has been in a remarkably active state of development throughout the past three decades, resulting in new motivation for study in surprisingly different directions. Beyond the intrinsic interest in the study of integrable models of many-particle systems, spin chains, lattice and field theory models at both the classical and the quantum level, and completely solvable models in statistical mechanics, there have been new applications in relation to a number of other fields of current interest.These fields include theoretical physics and pure mathematics, for example the Seiberg-Witten approach to supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory, the spectral theory of random matrices, topological models of quantum gravity, conformal field theory, mirror symmetry, quantum cohomology, etc. This collection gives a nice cross-section of the current state of the work in the area of integrable systems which is presented by some of the leading active researchers in this field. The scope and quality of the articles in this volume make this a valuable resource for those interested in an up-to-date introduction and an overview of many of the main areas of study in the theory of integral systems.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Integrable Systems
• Publisher: American Mathematical Society, US
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0821820931
• ISBN 13: 9780821820933
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 510 grams

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Synopsis

A dozen papers provide a cross-section of current research into integrable systems. Contributors from Europe, North America, and the Asia explore such aspects as the geometry of generalized Hitchin systems, the quantum inverse scattering problem and correlation functions of integrable models, characteristic systems on Poisson Lie groups and their quantization, special functions associated with Calogero-Moser type quantum systems, and the universality of the distribution functions of random matrix theory. There is no index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)