Symmetries in Particle Physics

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Some Perspectives on the Nonlinear Sigma Model....Pages 1-7
The Turbulent Aether....Pages 9-17
Does Quantum Chromodynamics Imply Confinement?....Pages 19-31
Chaos and Cosmos....Pages 33-45
Dynamic Symmetries in Nuclei, Atoms and Molecules....Pages 47-61
The Symmetry and Renormalization Group Fixed Points of Quartic Hamiltonians....Pages 63-92
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions and Future Physics....Pages 93-104
The Fermion Determinant in Massless Two-Dimensional QCD....Pages 105-113
Dynamic Mass Generation for Fermions....Pages 115-125
Tomographic Representation of Quantized Fields....Pages 127-140
On Spontaneously Broken Supersymmetry....Pages 141-157
An Action in Superspace for SO ( N )-Supergravity....Pages 159-175
Intrinsic Geometry of Supergravity....Pages 177-189
On the Physics of Dimensional Reduction....Pages 191-199
Backlund Transformations and Deformations of Linear Differential Equations with Applications to Diophantine Approximations....Pages 201-220
Backlund Transformations and Geometric and Complex-Analytic Background for Construction of Completely Integrable Lattice Systems....Pages 221-264
Unfashionable Pursuits....Pages 265-285
Epilogue....Pages 287-290
Back Matter....Pages 291-311