Readership: Upper level undergraduates, graduate students, lecturers and researchers in theoretical, mathematical and quantum physics.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Complex Functions, Riemann Surfaces and Two-Dimensional Conformal Field Theory (an Introduction); Elements of Group Theory and Group Representations; A Primer on Operators; Basics of Algebras and Related Concepts; Infinite-Dimensional Algebras; The Role of Symmetry in Physics and Mathematics; All That's Super - An Introduction; Gravitation, Relativity and Black Holes; Basics of Quantum Theory; Theory of Yang-Mills and the Yang-Mills-Higgs Mechanism; Strings and Superstrings (Elementary Aspects).