Nonperturbative Quantum-field-theoretic Methods and Their Applications

Book excerpt: Contents: Conformal Boundary Conditions OCo and What They Teach Us (V B Petkova & J-B Zuber); A Physical Basis for the Entropy of the AdS 3 Black Hole (S Fernando & F Mansouri); Spinon Formulation of the Kondo Problem (A Klmper & J R Reyes-Martinez); Boundary Integrable Quantum Field Theories (P Dorey); Finite Size Effects in Integrable Quantum Field Theories (F Ravanini); Nonperturbative Analysis of the Two-Frequency Sine-Gordon Model (Z Bajnok et al.); Screening in Hot SU(2) Gauge Theory and Propagators in 3D Adjoint Higgs Model (A Cucchieri et al.); Effective Average Action in Statistical Physics and Quantum Field Theory (Ch Wetterich); Phase Transitions in Non-Hermitean Matrix Models and the OC Single RingOCO Theorem (J Feinberg et al.); Unraveling the Mystery of Flavor (A Falk); The Nahm Transformation on R 2 X T 2 (C Ford); A 2D Integrable Axion Model and Target Space Duality (P Forgics); Supersymmetric Ward Identities and Chiral Symmetry Breaking in SUSY QED (M L Walker); and other papers. Readership: Theoretical, mathematical and high energy physicists."