Ian Kogan Memorial Volume

FROM FIELDS TO STRINGS:
CIRCUMNAVIGATING THEORETICAL PHYSICS

Ian Kogan Memorial Collection

Edited by Misha Shifman, Arkady Vainshtein, and John Wheater

Graphic design by Poline Tylevich

Published in three volumes by World Scientific

(Link to order the Collection from World Scientific)

Obituary in CERN Courier Photos

A conference in tribute to Ian Kogan "From Fields to Strings: Circumnavigating Theoretical Physics" held in Oxford on 8-10 January 2004 was very successful. The list of talks delivered at the Conference, as well as some photographs, can be found at http://www-thphys.physics.ox.ac.uk/users/PeterAusting/Conference

COLLECTION

VOLUME I

M. Shifman, J. Wheater and A. Vainshtein, From the Editors

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List of Contributors

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Table of Contents

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Part I: Personal Notes

Bella Kogan, Ian's Universe

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Ilya Kogan, This is how it was ...

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M. Shifman, Ian Kogan

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B.L. Ioffe, My Recollections of Ian Kogan

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Jonathon Hodby, Ian in Balliol

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J.F. Wheater, Ian in the Department

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Part II: From Fields to Strings

1. QCD and Field Theory

Frank Wilczek, Diquarks as Inspiration and as Objects

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M.N. Chernodub and B.L. Ioffe, The Influence of Baryons on the Chiral Phase Transition in QCD

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Thomas D. Cohen, QCD Functional Integrals for Systems with Nonzero Chemical Potential

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Alex Kovner and J. Guilherme Milhano, Variational Techniques in Non-perturbative QCD

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Dmitri Antonov and Maria Cristina Diamantini, 3D Georgi--Glashow Model and Confining Strings at Zero and Finite Temperatures

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A.V. Belitsky, V.M. Braun, A.S. Gorsky and G.P. Korchemsky, Integrability in QCD and Beyond

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A. Armoni, M. Shifman and G. Veneziano From Super-Yang--Mills Theory to QCD: Planar Equivalence and its Implications

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Gerald V. Dunne, Heisenberg--Euler Effective Lagrangians : Basics and Extensions

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A.V. Smilga, Low-dimensional Sisters of Seiberg--Witten Effective Theory

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M. Asorey, D. Garcia-Alvarez and J.L. Lopez, Non-analyticities in Three-dimensional Gauge Theories

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A. Losev, A. Marshakov and N. Nekrasov, Small Instantons, Little Strings and Free Fermions

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Valentin V. Khoze, Gauge Theory Amplitudes, Scalar Graphs and Twistor Space

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2. Condensed Matter

M. J. Bhaseen and A. M. Tsvelik, Aspects of Confinement in Low Dimensions

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F.H.L. Essler and R.M. Konik, Application of Massive Integrable QFTs to Problems in Condensed Matter Physics

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D. Karabali, V.P. Nair and S. Randjbar-Daemi, Fuzzy Spaces, the M(atrix) Model and the Quantum Hall Effect

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VOLUME II

3. Unification, Extra Dimensions, Cosmology

G. G. Ross, The Quest for Unification

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Thibault Damour, Chaos, Symmetry and String Cosmology

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Csaba Csaki, Extra Dimensions and Branes

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Gregory Gabadadze, Looking At The Cosmological Constant from Infinite-Volume Bulk

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Gia Dvali and Shamit Kachru, New Old Inflation

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4. Conformal Theories

A.M. Polyakov, Conformal Fixed Points of Unidentified Gauge Theories

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Edward Witten, SL(2,Z) Action on Three-Dimensional Conformal Field Theories with Abelian Symmetry

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Michael Flohr, Logarithmic Conformal Field Theory or How to Compute a Torus Amplitude on the Sphere

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N.E. Mavromatos, Logarithmic Conformal Field Theories and Strings in Changing Backgrounds

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N. Mann and J. Polchinski, Finite Density States in Integrable Conformal Field Theories

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V. Gurarie and A. W. W. Ludwig Conformal Field Theory at Central Charge c=0 and Two-Dimensional Critical Systems with Quenched Disorder

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Alexandre F. Caldeira and J. F. Wheater Boundary States and Broken Bulk Symmetries in WA_r Minimal Models

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5. AdS/CFT Correspondence

Juan Maldacena, Lectures on AdS/CFT

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Sergei Gukov, Emil Martinec, Gregory Moore, and Andrew Strominger, The Search for a Holographic Dual to AdS_3xS^3xS^3xS^1

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Sergei Gukov, Emil Martinec, Gregory Moore, and Andrew Strominger, Chern-Simons Gauge Theory and the AdS_3/CFT_2 Correspondence

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A.A. Tseytlin, Spinning Strings and AdS/CFT Duality

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A. Ritz, R-symmetries, Algebraic Geometry, and AdS/CFT

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VOLUME III

6. Strings

John H. Schwarz, The Three-String Vertex for a Plane-Wave Background

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L. Susskind, Supersymmetry Breaking in the Anthropic Landscape

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Pierre Ramond, The Sirens of Eleven Dimensions

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M. R. Douglas, I. R. Klebanov, D. Kutasov, J. Maldacena, E. Martinec, and N. Seiberg, A New Hat for the c=1 Matrix Model

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Cumrun Vafa, Mirror Symmetry and Closed String Tachyon Condensation

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Eva Silverstein, AdS and dS Entropy from String Junctions or The Function of Junction Conjunctions

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Vladimir A. Kazakov and Ivan K. Kostov, Instantons in Non-Critical Strings from the Two-Matrix Model

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Dimitri Polyakov, Fluid Dynamics of NSR Strings

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Richard J. Szabo, Strings, Gauge Fields and Membranes

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Jose L. F. Barbon and Eliezer Rabinovici, Touring the Hagedorn Ridge

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Gordon W. Semenoff, Black Holes and Thermodynamic States of Matrix Models

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Ashoke Sen, Tachyons in String Theory

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Adel Bilal, Anomaly Cancellations on Lower-Dimensional Hypersurfaces by Inflow from the Bulk

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7. Other Aspects

Paolo Creminelli, Howard Georgi and Nima Arkani-Hamed, A Larger than Naive Cut-off in a Simple Model

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Alexander Turbiner, Quartic Anharmonic Many-body Oscillator

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E. Ivanov, L. Mezincescu, and P. K. Townsend A Super-Flag Landau Model

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Z. Berezhiani Through the Looking-glass: Alice's Adventures in Mirror World

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Part III: Selected Papers by Ian Kogan

I.I. Kogan and M.A. Shifman, Once More on Weak Radiative Decays

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I.I. Kogan, Vortices on the World Sheet of a String: Critical Dynamics

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J.-S. Caux, Ian I. Kogan and A. M. Tsvelik, Logarithmic Operators and Hidden Continuous Symmetry in Critical Disordered Models

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P. Kanti, I.I. Kogan, K.A. Olive and M. Pospelov, Single-Brane Cosmological Solutions with a Stable Compact Extra Dimension

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Ian Kogan and Graham Ross, Brane Universe and Multigravity: Modification of Gravity at Large and Small Distances

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A. Gorsky, I.I. Kogan and G. Korchemsky, High Energy QCD: Stringy Picture from Hidden Integrability

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List of Publications of IAN KOGAN

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