Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to the first edition
- Preface to the second edition
- Acknowledgements for the first edition
- Acknowledgements for the second edition
- I Introduction to methods
- II Fermions
- III Strongly fluctuating spin systems
- IV Physics in the world of one spatial dimension
- Introduction
- 22 Model of the free bosonic massless scalar field
- 23 Relevant and irrelevant fields
- 24 Kosterlitz–Thouless transition
- 25 Conformal symmetry
- 26 Virasoro algebra
- 27 Differential equations for the correlation functions
- 28 Ising model
- 29 One-dimensional spinless fermions: Tomonaga–Luttinger liquid
- 30 One-dimensional fermions with spin: spin-charge separation
- 31 Kac–Moody algebras: Wess–Zumino–Novikov–Witten model
- 32 Wess–Zumino–Novikov–Witten model in the Lagrangian form: non-Abelian bosonization
- 33 Semiclassical approach to Wess–Zumino–Novikov–Witten models
- 34 Integrable models: dynamical mass generation
- 35 A comparative study of dynamical mass generation in one and three dimensions
- 36 One-dimensional spin liquids: spin ladder and spin S = 1 Heisenberg chain
- 37 Kondo chain
- 38 Gauge fixing in non-Abelian theories: (1 + 1)-dimensional quantum chromodynamics
- Select bibliography
- Index
31 - Kac–Moody algebras: Wess–Zumino–Novikov–Witten model
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2010
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to the first edition
- Preface to the second edition
- Acknowledgements for the first edition
- Acknowledgements for the second edition
- I Introduction to methods
- II Fermions
- III Strongly fluctuating spin systems
- IV Physics in the world of one spatial dimension
- Introduction
- 22 Model of the free bosonic massless scalar field
- 23 Relevant and irrelevant fields
- 24 Kosterlitz–Thouless transition
- 25 Conformal symmetry
- 26 Virasoro algebra
- 27 Differential equations for the correlation functions
- 28 Ising model
- 29 One-dimensional spinless fermions: Tomonaga–Luttinger liquid
- 30 One-dimensional fermions with spin: spin-charge separation
- 31 Kac–Moody algebras: Wess–Zumino–Novikov–Witten model
- 32 Wess–Zumino–Novikov–Witten model in the Lagrangian form: non-Abelian bosonization
- 33 Semiclassical approach to Wess–Zumino–Novikov–Witten models
- 34 Integrable models: dynamical mass generation
- 35 A comparative study of dynamical mass generation in one and three dimensions
- 36 One-dimensional spin liquids: spin ladder and spin S = 1 Heisenberg chain
- 37 Kondo chain
- 38 Gauge fixing in non-Abelian theories: (1 + 1)-dimensional quantum chromodynamics
- Select bibliography
- Index
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- Quantum Field Theory in Condensed Matter Physics , pp. 277 - 291Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2003