INTEGRABLE MODELS IN STATISTICAL MECHANICS: THE HIDDEN FIELD WITH UNSOLVED PROBLEMS

DOI10.1142/S0217751X99001834zbMATH Open0968.82004arXivmath-ph/9904003MaRDI QIDQ4949050FDOQ4949050

Authors: Barry M. McCoy 

Publication date: 27 April 2000

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In the past 30 years there have been extensive discoveries in the theory of integrable statistical mechanical models including the discovery of non-linear differential equations for Ising model correlation functions, the theory of random impurities, level crossing transitions in the chiral Potts model and the use of Rogers-Ramanujan identities to generalize our concepts of Bose/Fermi statistics. Each of these advances has led to the further discovery of major unsolved problems of great mathematical and physical interest. I will here discuss the mathematical advances, the physical insights and extraordinary lack of visibility of this field of physics.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/9904003

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zbMATH Keywords

Ising modelcorrelation functionsRogers-Ramanujan identitieschiral Potts modelPainlevé equationsBose/Fermi statisticsGriffiths-McCoy singularitieslevel crossing transitionsrandom layered Ising model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to statistical mechanics (82-02) Exactly solvable models; Bethe ansatz (82B23) History of statistical mechanics (82-03)

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