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  1. Newsgroups: sci.physics
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!darwin.sura.net!jvnc.net!newsserver.technet.sg!nuscc!matmcinn
  3. From: matmcinn@nuscc.nus.sg (Brett McInnes)
  4. Subject: Re: Link invariants and gauge theory
  5. Message-ID: <1992Dec22.051055.13451@nuscc.nus.sg>
  6. Organization: National University of Singapore
  7. X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
  8. References: <BzMAyM.Du2@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
  9. Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 05:10:55 GMT
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  12. marty@amaterasu.physics.uiuc.edu (Marty Gelfand) writes:
  13. :    Hey, who says conformal field theory is of no real use???  Down here
  14. : in low-energy physics it has been fruitful in problems such as
  15.                                    ^^^^^^^^^                              
  16.  : quantum spin chains, multichannel Kondo systems,
  17. and 2D finite-temperature : critical phenomena (including random systems).
  18. : 
  19. Can you be a little more specific? I must admit that I am sceptical, but
  20. maybe I just attended some bad talks. However, I am willing to have my
  21. prejudices dispelled.
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