TRAINING AND MOBILITY OF RESEARCHERS (TMR)

Integrability, non-perturbative effects, and symmetry in quantum field theory

A TMR Physics Network.

EC contract number FMRX-CT96-0012
Start date 1-10-1996. End date 30-9-2000. Duration 48 months.

Coordinator:

Ed Corrigan,
University of Durham, Mathematical Sciences
South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, GB.

Tel + 44-191 3742372, Fax + 44-191 3747388
Email edward.corrigan@durham.ac.uk

Other participants:

Peter West, King's College London, GB
David Olive, University of Wales Swansea, GB
Hermann Nicolai, Max Planck Institute Potsdam, DE
Loriano Bonora, SISSA Trieste, IT
Cesar Gomez, CSIC Madrid, ES
Jean-Bernard Zuber, Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique, Saclay, FR
Bernard Julia, CNRS, ENS-Paris, FR
Adam Schwimmer, Weizmann Institute for Science, Rehovot, IL

In addition to these, some members of the following universities (contact names in brackets) are collaborating with the principal partners and are considered part of the above nodes:

University of Mons-Hainaut (Jean Nuyts) and University of Bologna (Francesco Ravanini) with Durham
University of Montpellier (Andre Neveu) with ENS-Paris
ENS-Lyon (Jean Michel Maillet) and LAPP-Annecy (Paul Sorba) with CEA-Saclay
University of Florence (Andrea Cappelli) and University of Milan, Como (Giuseppe Mussardo) with SISSA Trieste
University of Santiago (Joaquin Sanchez Guillen) with CSIC Madrid
University of Bonn (Vladimir Rittenberg) and Hamburg (Gerhard Mack) with Potsdam
Hebrew University Jerusalem ( Eliezer Rabinovici) and Tel-Aviv University (Shimon Yankielowicz) with the Weizmann Institute

Summary of objectives:

There are two long-term objectives: to find a unified consistent theory of the elementary particles and their interactions, and to provide techniques for the calculation of non-perturbative effects in quantum field theory or in string theory. The first objective recognises the shortcomings of the Standard Model of elementary particles, including the serious problem of incorporating gravity within the framework of renormalisable quantum field theory. One immediate task is to clarify the role of hidden symmetries such as extended conformal symmetry or weak-strong coupling symmetries, in order to be able to make use of them non-pertubatively, and in order to expose the true nature of string theory. Another task is to study two-dimensional models in which hidden symmetries play a part but for which the role of the symmetry is more transparent. Some of these, the affine Toda field theories, also exhibit a weak-strong coupling duality and other non-perturbative effects which need to be properly understood.

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last change 6 April 1999.