MRST '96 : Current Ideas in Theoretical Physics

by Smith, B. H.; O'Donnell, P. J.

• ISBN13: 9789810229047
• ISBN10: 9810229046
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-11-01
• Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc

Summary

Proceedings of the 18th Annual MontrealRochester-Syracuse-Toronto Meeting held at the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada from May 9-10, 1996.

Table of Contents

Preface
Roberto Mendel, An Appreciation
The Infamous Coulomb Gauge	p. 1
Renormalized Path Integral in Quantum Mechanics	p. 7
New Analysis of the Divergence of Perturbation Theory	p. 13
The Last of the Soluble Two Dimensional Field Theories?	p. 23
R[subscript b] and Heavy Quark Mixing	p. 31
R[subscript b] Problem: Loop Contributions and Supersymmetry	p. 41
QCD Radiative Effects in Inclusive Hadronic B Decays	p. 51
CP-Violating Dipole Moments of Quarks in the Kobayashi-Maskawa Model	p. 61
Hints of Dynamical Symmetry Breaking?	p. 73
Pi Pi Scattering in an Effective Chiral Lagrangian	p. 83
Pion-Resonance Parameters from QCD Sum Rules	p. 93
Higgs Theorem, Effective Action, and its Gauge Invariance	p. 103
SUSY and the Decay [actual symbol not reproducible]	p. 113
Effective Higgs-to-Light Quark Coupling Induced by Heavy Quark Loops	p. 123
Heavy Charged Lepton Production in Superstring Inspired E6 Models	p. 133
The Elastic Properties of a Flat Crystalline Membrane	p. 143
Gauge Dependence of Topological Observables in Chern-Simons Theory	p. 153
Entanglement Entropy From Edge States	p. 163
A Simple General Treatment of Flavor Oscillations	p. 175
From Schrodinger to Maupertuis: Least Action Principles from Quantum Mechanics	p. 185
The Matrix Method for Multi-Loop Feynman Integrals	p. 189
Simplification in QCD and Electroweak Calculations	p. 197
Programme	p. 207
List of Participants	p. 211
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