Introduction to Conformal Invariance and Its Applications to Critical Phenomena

DOI10.1007/978-3-540-47575-0zbMath0790.60095arXivcond-mat/9304035OpenAlexW3010262361MaRDI QIDQ4693773

Philippe Christe, Malte Henkel

Publication date: 27 June 1993

Published in: Lecture Notes in Physics Monographs (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9304035

zbMATH Keywords

quantum field theoryconformal invariancemodular invariancePotts modelstatistical mechanicsAshkin-Teller modelIsing quantum chaincritical point partition functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to probability theory (60-01) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Other physical applications of random processes (60K40) Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Critical phenomena in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B27) Physics (00A79) Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to statistical mechanics (82-01)

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