Brézin, Edouard (Ed.)

Large N expansion in quantum field theory and statistical physics: from spin systems to 2-dimensional gravity - Singapore: World Scientific, 1993. - xiv; 1130 p. pb. 25 cm.

This book contains an edited comprehensive collection of reprints on the subject of the large N limit as applied to a wide spectrum of problems in quantum field theory and statistical mechanics. The topics include (1) Spin Systems; (2) Large N Limit of Gauge Theories; (3) Two-Dimensional QCD; (4) Exact Results on Planar Perturbation Series and the Nature of the 1/​N Series; (5) Schwinger-Dyson Equations Approach; (6) QCD Phenomenological Lagrangians and the Large N Limit; (7) Other Approaches to Large N: Eguchi-Kawai Model, Collective Fields and Numerical Methods; (8) Matrix Models; (9) Two-Dimensional Gravity and String Theory.

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Quantum Field Theory
String Models
Physics
Gauge Fields

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