Low Dimensional Physics And Gauge Principles: Matinyan's Festschrift

This is a collection of articles on fundamental physical principles and methods, the topics ranging from matrix models, random surfaces, quantum dots and rings, to black holes, cosmology and testing of the tiny effects predicted by General Relativity. Among the authors are Sir Roger Penrose and other well-known experts and the articles are addressed to graduate students and researchers. The volume is a Festschrift to a noted physicist and mentor Sergei Matinyan.
Contents:A Matrix Model Representation of the Integrable XXZ Heisenberg Chain on Random Surfaces (J Ambjørn and A Sedrakyan)Magnetization and Concurrence Properties of Diamond Chain: Two Approaches (N S Ananikian, H A Lazaryan, M A Nalbandyan, O Rozas and S M de Souza)Non-Trivial Holonomy and Calorons (P van Baal)Spontaneous Breaking of Lorentz-Invariance and Gravitons as Goldstone Particles (Z Berezhiani and O V Kancheli)On Emergent Gauge and Gravity Theories (J L Chkareuli)Geodesic Motion in General Relativity: Lares in Earth's Gravity (I Ciufolini, V G Gurzadyan, R Penrose and A Paolozzi)Collective States of D(D3) Non-Abelian Anyons (P E Finch and H Frahm)Electromagnetic Properties of Neutrinos at an Interface (A N Ioannisian, D A Ioannisian and N A Kazarian)Capture and Ejection of Dark Matter by the Solar System (I B Khriplovich)Topological Theory Of QHE (M Kohmoto)QCD String as an Effective String (Y Makeenko)New Chern–Simons Densities in Both Odd and Even Dimensions (E Radu and T Tchrakian)Photon “Mass” and Atomic Levels in a Superstrong Magnetic Field (M I Vysotsky)Constraints on Parameters of the Black Hole at the Galactic Center (A F Zakharov, F De Paolis, G Ingrosso and A A Nucita)Diffusion in Two-Dimensional Disordered Systems with Particle-Hole Symmetry (K Ziegler)and other papers
Readership: Graduate students and researchers in physics.