Bosonization

Bosonization is a useful technique for studying systems of interacting fermions in low dimensions. It has applications in both particle and condensed matter physics. This book contains reprints of papers on the method as used in these fields. The papers range from the classic work of Tomonaga in the 1950's on one-dimensional electron gases, through the discovery of fermionic solitons in the 1970's, to integrable systems and bosonization on Riemann surfaces. A four-chapter pedagogical introduction by the editor should make the book accessible to graduate students and experienced researchers alike. Contents: Remarks on Bloch's Method of Sound Waves Applied to Many Fermion Problems (S Tomonaga)Particle States of a Quantized Meson Field (T H R Skyrme)Soliton Operators for the Quantized Sine-Gordon Equation (S Mandelstam)Theory of Non-Abelian Goldstone Bosons in Two Dimensions (A M Polyakov & P Weigman)Non-Abelian Bosonization in Two Dimensions (E Witten)Chiral Bosonization, Determinants, and the String Partition Function (E Verlinde & H Verlinde)Bosonization on Higher Genus Riemann Surfaces (L Alvarez-Gaume et al.)Transformation Groups for Soliton Equations (E Date et al.)Coherent-State Path Integrals for Loop Groups and Non-Abelian Bosonization (M Stone)and other papers Readership: Students and researchers in high energy and condensed matter physics. keywords: