High Energy Physics and Cosmology

The Table of Contents for the book is as follows:

• PREFACE
• PART I
  • LEP RESULTS
  • CP VIOLATION
  • LATTICE QCD AND CHIRAL LAGRANGIANS
  • QUARK MATTER AND NUCLEAR COLLISIONS
  • COMPARING THE ELEMENTARY QUARK VERSUS THE PREONIC APPROACH TO UNIFICATION
  • INTRODUCTION TO COSMOLOGY
  • Topological Defects in Cosmology
• PART II
  • Lectures on 2d Gauge Theories — Topological Aspects and Path Integral Techniques
  • TWO-DIMENSIONAL QCD ON THE SPHERE AND ON THE CYLINDER
  • ASPECTS OF ABELIAN AND NON-ABELIAN DUALITY
  • Topological Models of Non-critical Strings
  • Massless integrable quantum field theories and massless scattering in 1+1 dimensions
  • Form Factor Approach to Correlation Functions in Integrable Quantum Field Theories
  • Reaction-diffusion processes as physical realizations of Hecke algebras
• PART II WORKSHOP
  • EFFECTIVE ACTIONS AND TOPOLOGICAL STRING AMPLITUDES
  • Symmetries, Observables and Solutions of Induced QCD
  • Gauged and ungauged WZW models
  • Space-Time Interpretations of Chiral Gauged WZW Models
  • Topological Conformal Algebra in 2d Gravity Coupled to Minimal Matter
  • Statistics of Quasi-particles and Characters of CFTs
  • 𝒲-Algebras in Conformal Field Theory
  • BRST analysis of W-symmetries
  • On Nonlinear Superconformal Algebras with N > 4
  • NON-CRITICAL SUPERSTRINGS: COMPARISON BETWEEN CONTINUUM AND DISCRETE APPROACHES
  • Supersymmetric Integrable Field Theories and Eight Vertex Free Fermion Models