Download or read book Frontiers in Number Theory, Physics, and Geometry II written by Pierre E. Cartier and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-07-18 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten years after a 1989 meeting of number theorists and physicists at the Centre de Physique des Houches, a second event focused on the broader interface of number theory, geometry, and physics. This book is the first of two volumes resulting from that meeting. Broken into three parts, it covers Conformal Field Theories, Discrete Groups, and Renormalization, offering extended versions of the lecture courses and shorter texts on special topics.