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SUMMARY:Integrability and String Theory - Professor Nick Dorey
DTSTART:20091130T170000Z
DTEND:20091130T180000Z
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CONTACT:Amanda Stagg
DESCRIPTION:The problem of free string motion in curved spacetime is relev
 ant for understanding the large-N limit of SU(N) gauge theory. In some of 
 the most interesting cases\, the spacetime is a symmetric space and string
  motion is exactly integrable due to an old result of Eichenherr and Forge
 r. In other words it exhibits an infinite tower of Poisson-commuting conse
 rved quantities.  I will review the role of classical and quantum integrab
 ility in recent progress towards an exact solution for the string spectrum
  in\nthese backgrounds. 
LOCATION:MR2\, Centre for Mathematical Sciences
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