Strings and Symmetries: Proceedings of the Gürsey Memorial Conference I Held at Istanbul, Turkey, 6–10 June 1994

Superstrings: The view from below....Pages 1-14
Note on holomorphic anomalies in topological field theories....Pages 15-25
Folded strings....Pages 26-39
Algebro-geometric aspects of the Bethe equations....Pages 40-53
Extended superconformal symmetry, Freudenthal triple systems and gauged WZW models....Pages 54-69
A three-dimensional fractional string....Pages 70-74
Why don't we have a covariant superstring field theory?....Pages 75-80
Search for duality symmetries in p-branes....Pages 81-86
Non linear identities between unitary minimal Virasoro characters....Pages 87-92
Finite deformations of CF T and space-time geometry....Pages 93-98
Non-standard fermion propagators from conformal field theory....Pages 99-103
Manifestly space-time conformally invariant null strings....Pages 104-104
Lie algebras and exactly solvable problems in Quantum Mechanics....Pages 105-119
Geometry and arithmetic of factorized S-matrices....Pages 120-124
Duality principle and braided geometry....Pages 125-144
HyperKähler quotients and N=4 gauge theories in D=2....Pages 145-168
Four dimensional integrable theories....Pages 169-182
Regularisation, the BV method, and the antibracket cohomology....Pages 183-196
 E 10 for beginners....Pages 197-210
Symmetry principles for string theory....Pages 211-215
Are on-shell 3-string amplitudes the structure constants of the fake monster Lie algebra?....Pages 216-217
Auxiliary fields for super Yang-Mills from division algebras....Pages 218-223
Automorphism groups of discrete octonions and possible applications in physics....Pages 224-227
Spatial geometry and the Wu-Yang ambiguity....Pages 228-234
The classification of third order PDE with respect to symmetry....Pages 235-237
Symmetries of large systems of differential equations....Pages 238-242
 q -Deformed path integral and generalized grassmann variables....Pages 243-248
Quantum mechanical quantum group in two-dimensional gravity....Pages 249-265
Electromagnetism and gravity in noncommutative geometry....Pages 266-271
The geometry of W symmetry algebras....Pages 272-278
Quantization of a gauge theory of quadratic Lie algebras in 2d....Pages 279-282
The BV-algebra structure of W 3 cohomology....Pages 283-291
Black hole solution of topologically massive gravity....Pages 292-293
Linearized gravity in “closed” universes with continuous symmetries....Pages 294-296
Quantum fluctuations in the presence of gravitational waves....Pages 297-301
On the radiative processes near cosmic strings....Pages 302-304
Integrable models in multidimensional cosmology with multicomponent perfect fluid and Toda lattices....Pages 305-309
Effective field theory....Pages 310-325
Gürsey's chiral model and its modifications....Pages 326-331
Instability of a Nielsen-Olesen vortex embedded in the electroweak theory....Pages 332-345
Proper-time methods in the presence of non-constant background fields....Pages 346-350
On Abelian bosonization of free fermi fields in three space dimensions....Pages 351-355
Internal spin structure of the nucleon....Pages 356-359
Strings and membranes in electron theory....Pages 360-363
Quark and lepton masses and the Higgs field in fifth dimension....Pages 364-367
Regularization and quantization of higher dimensional current algebras....Pages 368-370
Fermion masses and mixing from an extra gauge symmetry....Pages 371-375
E 6 model manifestations in z and τ decays....Pages 376-380
Anomaly and exotic statistics in one dimension....Pages 381-384
Samuel MacDowell Closing Remarks Gürsey Memorial Conference I June 6–10,1994....Pages 385-386