Integrable Lattice Models From Gauge Theory
High Energy Physics - Theory
2016-11-03 v1 Statistical Mechanics
Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Abstract
These notes provide an introduction to recent work by Kevin Costello in which integrable lattice models of classical statistical mechanics in two dimensions are understood in terms of quantum gauge theory in four dimensions. This construction will be compared to the more familiar relationship between quantum knot invariants in three dimensions and Chern-Simons gauge theory. (Based on a Whittaker Colloquium at the University of Edinburgh and a lecture at Strings 2016 in Beijing.)
Cite
@article{arxiv.1611.00592,
title = {Integrable Lattice Models From Gauge Theory},
author = {Edward Witten},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.00592},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
20 pp