Klappentext

The proceedings of a summer school presented by the Centro Internazionale Matematico Estivo, which was devoted to methods of global differential geometry and algebraic geometry in field theory, with special emphasis on Riemann surfaces, the geometry of supermanifolds and structures in gauge theory.

Inhalt
The geometry and topology of moduli spaces.- Topics in conformal field theory and string theory.- Geometrical aspects of the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation.- Geometry of standard constraints and anomalous supersymmetric gauge theories.- Hamiltonian formulation of string theory and multiloop amplitudes in the operator context.- Conformal field theory, real weight differentials and KdV equation in higher genus.- Supermoduli and superstrings.