Ebook: New Non-Perturbative Methods and Quantization on the Light Cone: Les Houches School, February 24 — March 7, 1997

Among the several distinct ways of formulating and quantizing a Hamiltonian system, the light cone approach enjoys special status because it has the largest stability group. The aim of this volume is to present recent achievements and open problems in this rather unusual quantization framework to a large audience. The formulation is set up in a comprehensive introduction where the issues are also clearly indicated with specific examples: vacuum structure, signature of non-perturbative effects, chiral symmetry breaking, light cone gauge theories, etc. The following chapters address these topics through a selection of the most relevant contributions presented at Les Houches.
This volume should prove valuable to newcomers in the field, and graduates and academics.

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Among the several distinct ways of formulating and quantizing a Hamiltonian system, the light cone approach enjoys special status because it has the largest stability group. The aim of this volume is to present recent achievements and open problems in this rather unusual quantization framework to a large audience. The formulation is set up in a comprehensive introduction where the issues are also clearly indicated with specific examples: vacuum structure, signature of non-perturbative effects, chiral symmetry breaking, light cone gauge theories, etc. The following chapters address these topics through a selection of the most relevant contributions presented at Les Houches.
This volume should prove valuable to newcomers in the field, and graduates and academics.

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Among the several distinct ways of formulating and quantizing a Hamiltonian system, the light cone approach enjoys special status because it has the largest stability group. The aim of this volume is to present recent achievements and open problems in this rather unusual quantization framework to a large audience. The formulation is set up in a comprehensive introduction where the issues are also clearly indicated with specific examples: vacuum structure, signature of non-perturbative effects, chiral symmetry breaking, light cone gauge theories, etc. The following chapters address these topics through a selection of the most relevant contributions presented at Les Houches.
This volume should prove valuable to newcomers in the field, and graduates and academics.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-XVIII
Introduction....Pages 1-13
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
Renormalization of Hamiltonians....Pages 17-23
Spin Glasses and the Renormalization Group....Pages 25-32
Hamiltonian Flow in Condensed Matter Physics....Pages 33-42
Front Matter....Pages 43-43
Coherent States and Constrained Systems....Pages 45-51
Unified Description and Canonical Reduction to Dirac’s Observables of the Four Interactions....Pages 53-62
Time Evolution in General Gauge Theories....Pages 63-69
Front Matter....Pages 71-71
Developing Transport Theory to Study the Chiral Phase Transition....Pages 73-79
On Deriving the Effective Interaction from the QCD Lagrangian....Pages 81-88
Front form QED(3+1): The spin-multiplet structure of the positronium spectrum at strong coupling....Pages 89-96
Spectral Fluctuations of the QCD Dirac Operator....Pages 97-104
Front Matter....Pages 105-105
Collinear QCD Models....Pages 107-113
A New Lattice Formulation of the Continuum....Pages 115-121
Colour-Dielectric Gauge Theory on a Transverse Lattice....Pages 123-129
Front Matter....Pages 131-131
Light Front Treatment of Nuclei and Deep Inelastic Scattering....Pages 133-139
Light-cone strings....Pages 141-145
Quantum Field Theory in Singular Limits....Pages 147-153
Front Matter....Pages 155-155
On the Transition from Confinement to Screening in Large N Gauge Theory....Pages 157-165
Intermediate Volumes and the Role of Instantons....Pages 167-178
Front Matter....Pages 179-185
Renormalization in the Coulomb Gauge....Pages 155-155
Stable Knotlike Solitons....Pages 187-193
Front Matter....Pages 195-200
Phenomenology of Renormalons in Inclusive Processes....Pages 201-201
Power Terms in QCD Hard Processes and Running Coupling....Pages 203-208
Highlights on deep inelastic scattering at HERA....Pages 209-212
On Small-x Resummations for the Evolution of Deep-Inelastic Structure Functions....Pages 213-217
Front Matter....Pages 219-223
The Light-Cone Fock State Expansion and QCD Phenomenology....Pages 225-236
The Analog of t’Hooft Pions with Adjoint Fermions....Pages 237-241
Physical Coupling Schemes and QCD Exclusive Processes....Pages 243-243
Front Matter....Pages 245-251
Chiral Symmetry and Light-Cone Wave Functions....Pages 253-259
QCD at Finite Extension....Pages 261-267
Technicalities of the Zero Modes in the Light-Cone Representation....Pages 269-269
Zero Mode and Symmetry Breaking on the Light Front....Pages 271-276
Back Matter....Pages 277-283
....Pages 285-292