Various aspects of Whitham times

DOI10.1023/A:1006483905847zbMATH Open0981.81062arXivmath-ph/9905010MaRDI QIDQ1586852FDOQ1586852

Authors: Robert Carroll 

Publication date: 28 October 2001

Published in: Acta Applicandae Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We sketch some of the different roles played by Whitham times in connection with averaging, adiabatic invariants, soliton theory, Hamiltonian structures, Seiberg-Witten theory, isomonodromy problems, Hitchin systems, WDVV and Picard-Fuchs equations, renormalization, soft susy breaking, etc.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/9905010

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zbMATH Keywords

averagingrenormalizationsupersymmetry breakingadiabatic invariantsPicard-Fuchs equationsHamiltonian structurestopological field theoryHitchin systemssoliton theoryisomonodromy problems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vector bundles on curves and their moduli (14H60) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Relationships between algebraic curves and integrable systems (14H70)

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