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- From: bweiner@ruhets.rutgers.edu (Benjamin Weiner)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Link invariants and gauge theory
- Message-ID: <Dec.22.18.34.29.1992.25749@ruhets.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 23:34:30 GMT
- References: <BzMAyM.Du2@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Dec22.051055.13451@nuscc.nus.sg> <Bzo6Hx.L43@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
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- marty@amaterasu.physics.uiuc.edu (Marty Gelfand) writes:
- [defending conformal field theory as useful in condensed matter]
-
- > Conformal field
- >theory provides a classification scheme for 2D critical points
- >(due to Belavin, Polyakov, and Z.m.l.chikov): ...
-
- Zamolodchikov (there are two, Alexander and Alyosha; both are here
- (Rutgers) right now.) Zamolodchikov(s) is (are) usually thought of as
- string theorist(s) but this stuff is having an impact on condensed matter -
- I tease the theory grad students that all the talks they give are
- about conformal field theory, whether in particle physics OR condensed
- matter. I don't understand it, though, so I can't give references -
- sorry!
-