QUANTUM INTEGRABLE SYSTEMS

Chowdhury and Choudhury (physics, Surendranath College) explain developments over the past ten years in quantum integrable systems. After a preliminary discussion of the fundamentals of classical nonlinear integrable systems, they explore the quantum domain. Their approach emphasizes physical systems and the use of concrete examples, and they take care to establish the relationship between new and older methods. The presentation includes a discussion of the quantum Bäcklund transformation Q operator and various techniques related to algebraic Bethe ansatz. The book will be of interest to theoretical physicists, graduate students in physics and mathematics, mathematical physicists, and mathematicians.