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This volume is a collection of original papers and review in honour of James McGuire, one of the pioneers of integrable models in statistical physics. The range of articles offers a perspective on the current status of statistical mechanics, identifying both recent results as well as future challenges. The work contains a number of overviews of standard topics such as exactly solved lattice models and their various applications in statistical physics, from models of strongly correlated electrons to the confromational properties of polymer chains. The text includes coverage of new directions and developing fields including quantum computers, financial markets, chaotic systems. Feigenbaum scaling, proteins, brain behaviour, immunology, Markov superposition, Bose-Einstein condensation, random matrices, exclusion statistics, vertex operator algebras and D-unsolvability.

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Author:   Luc T Wille (Florida Atlantic Univ, Usa) ,  Murray T Batchelor (Australian Nat'l Univ, Australia)
Publisher:   World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Imprint:   World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Volume:   14
ISBN:  

9789810236786

ISBN 10:   9810236786
Pages:   536
Publication Date:   09 February 1999
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Modelling the immune system - an example of the simulation of complex biological systems, P.E. Seiden; modelling economic randomness - statistical mechanics of market phenomena, R. Cont; approach to equilibrium of chaotic systems, D.J. Driebe; Markov superposition expansion for the entropy and correlation functions in two and three dimensions, P. Attard; universality of the distribution functions of random matrix theory, C.A. Tracy and H. Widom; integrable models of correlated electrons, A.J. Bracken et al; two exactly soluble lattice models in three dimensions, F.Y. Wu; extended vertex operator algebras and monomial bases, B. Feigin and T. Miwa; an exactly solvable constrained XXZ chain, F.C. Alcaraz and R.Z. Bariev; hexagonal lattice directed site animals, A.J. Guttmann and A.R. Conway. (Part contents).

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