Recent Aspects of Quantum Fields: Proceedings of the XXX Int. Universittswochen [Paperback]

The contributions presented in this volume address graduatestudents as wellas researchers. They are intelligible andpedagogically well-written reviewsof the most recentdevelopments in quantum field theory and both quantumgravity and quantum supergravity. Alongside technicalproblems of field quantization the reader will also findcareful discussions of the conceptual framework and ofapplications to quantum cosmology.Chiral effective Lagrangians.- The spins inside the proton and chiral symmetry breaking.- Light-cone quantization of quantum chromodynamics.- Conceptual and geometrical problems in quantum gravity.- Two-dimensional gravities and supergravities as integrable systems.- Recent developments in relativistic thermal field theories.- Nonexistence of scattering theory at finite temperature.This volume addresses graduate students and researchers in quantum field theory and mathematical physics. The pedagogically well-written contributions deal with, among other topics, various aspects of quantum chromodynamics and quantum gravity.