Physics And Mathematics Of Strings: Memorial Volume For Vadim Knizhnik

Memorial Volume for Vadim Knizhnik

Lars Brink, D Friedan, Alexander M Polyakov

• Publisher: World Scientific
• Year: 1990
• Print ISBN:
  9789971509804
  9789971509804
• eBook ISBN:
  9789814434461
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Nuclear Physics

Vadim Knizhnik was one of the most promising theoretical physicists in the world. Unfortunately, he passed away at the very young age of 25 years. This memorial volume is to honor his contributions in Theoretical Physics. This is perhaps one of the most important collections of articles on the theoretical developments in String Theory, Conformal Field Theory and related topics. It consists of contributions from world-renowned physicists who have met Vadim Knizhnik personally and whom the late Knizhnik really respected. The contributions are systematic and pedagogical in format.

Table of contents

• FOREWORD
• CONTENTS
• GAUGE TRANSFORMATIONS AND DIFFEOMORPHISMS
• TOPICS IN CONFORMAL FIELD THEORY
• Representations of Uq (gl(n,C)) at q = 0 and the Robinson-Shensted correspondence
• THE SEWING TECHNIQUE AND CORRELATION FUNCTIONS ON ARBITRARY RIEMANN SURFACES
• SUPERGRASSMANNIANS, SUPER r-FUNCTIONS AND STRINGS
• CONFORMAL FIELD THEORY AND PURELY ELASTIC S-MATRICES
• REPRESENTATIONS OF AFFINE KAC-MOODY ALGEBRAS AND BOSONIZATION
• TWO-DIMENSIONAL CONFORMAL TRANSFORMATIONS REPRESENTED BY QUANTUM FIELDS IN MINKOWSKI SPACE-TIME
• Riemann surfaces, operator flelds, strings. Analogues of the Fourier-Laurent bases
• Remarks about the states with non-zero momentum.
• Criticality, Catastrophes, and Compactifications
• On the Explicit Construction of the Superstring Loop Measure in the Super-Schottky-Reggeon Formalism
• SUPERSYMMETRIC SUPERSTRING COMPACTIFICATION
• PHYSICS WITH A FUNDAMENTAL LENGTH
• THE CENTRAL CHARGE IN THREE DIMENSIONS
• Covariant Formulations of the Superparticle and the Superstring
• The Space of Conformal Field Theories and the Space of Classical String Ground States