Physics, Geometry and Topology - (NATO Asi Series) by NATO Advanced Study Institute and Banff Summer School in Theoretical Physics on Physics G

Book Synopsis

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).