This volume contains the proceedings of the third meeting on "Symmetries and Integrability of Difference Equations" (SIDE III). The collection includes original results not published elsewhere and articles that give a rigorous but concise overview of their subject, and provides a complete description of the state of the art. Research in the field of difference equations-often referred to more generally as discrete systems-has undergone impressive development in recent years. In this collection the reader finds the most important new developments in a number of areas, including: Lie-type symmetries of differential-difference and difference-difference equations, integrability of fully discrete systems such as cellular automata, the connection between integrability and discrete geometry, the isomonodromy approach to discrete spectral problems and related discrete Painlevé equations, difference and q-difference equations and orthogonal polynomials, difference equations and quantum groups, and integrability and chaos in discrete-time dynamical systems. The proceedings will be valuable to mathematicians and theoretical physicists interested in the mathematical aspects and/or in the physical applications of discrete nonlinear dynamics, with special emphasis on the systems that can be integrated by analytic methods or at least admit special explicit solutions. The research in this volume will also be of interest to engineers working in discrete dynamics as well as to theoretical biologists and economists.

A comprehensive introduction to the subject suitable for graduate students and researchers. This book is also an up-to-date survey of the current state of the art and thus will serve as a valuable reference for specialists in the field.

This book on integrable systems and symmetries presents new results on applications of symmetries and integrability techniques to the case of equations defined on the lattice. This relatively new field has many applications, for example, in describing the evolution of crystals and molecular systems defined on lattices, and in finding numerical approximations for differential equations preserving their symmetries. The book contains three chapters and five appendices. The first chapter is an introduction to the general ideas about symmetries, lattices, differential difference and partial difference equations and Lie point symmetries defined on them. Chapter 2 deals with integrable and linearizable systems in two dimensions. The authors start from the prototype of integrable and linearizable partial differential equations, the Korteweg de Vries and the Burgers equations. Then they consider the best known integrable differential difference and partial difference equations. Chapter 3 considers generalized symmetries and conserved densities as integrability criteria. The appendices provide details which may help the readers' understanding of the subjects presented in Chapters 2 and 3. This book is written for PhD students and early researchers, both in theoretical physics and in applied mathematics, who are interested in the study of symmetries and integrability of difference equations.

This is the fourth conference on “Supersymmetry and Perturbation Theory” (SPT 2002). The proceedings present original results and state-of-the-art reviews on topics related to symmetry, integrability and perturbation theory, etc.

Contents: An Outline of the Geometrical Theory of the Separation of Variables in the Hamilton-Jacobi and Schrodinger Equations (S Benenti); Partial Symmetries and Symmetric Sets of Solutions to PDEs (G Cicogna); Bifurcations in Flow-Induced Vibrations (S Fatimah & F Verhulst); Steklov-Lyapunov Type Systems (Y Fedorov); Renormalization Group and Summation of Divergent Series for Hyperbolic Invariant Tori (G Gentile); On the Linearization of holomorphic Vector Fields in the Siegel Domain with Linear Parts Having Nontrivial Jordan Blocks (T Gramchev); On the Algebro Geometric Solution of a 3x3 Matrix Riemann-Hilbert Problem (v Enolskii & T Grava); Smooth Normalization of a Vector Field Near an Invariant Manifold ((a Kopanskii); Inverse Problems for SL(2) Lattices (V Kuznetsov); Some Remarks about the Geometry of Hamiltonian Conservation Laws (J P Ortega); Janet's Algorithm (W Plesken); Some Integrable Billiards (E Previato); Symmetries of Relative Equilibria for Simple Mechanical Systems (M R Olmos & M E S Dias); A Spectral Sequences Approach to Normal Forms (J Sanders); Rational Parametrization of Strata in Orbit Spaces of Compact Linear Groups (G Sartori & G Valente); Effective Hamiltonians and Perturbation Theory for Quantum Bound States of Nucleur Motion in Molecules (V Tyuterev); Generalized Hasimoto Transformation and Vector Sine-Gordon Equation (J P Wang); and other papers. Readership: Researchers and graduate students in mathematical and theoretical physics, and nonlinears science.

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop, Chicago, USA, July 22-26, 2000

This volume presents the papers based upon lectures given at the 1999 Séminaire de Mathémathiques Supérieurs held in Montreal. It includes contributions from many of the most active researchers in the field. This subject has been in a remarkably active state of development throughout the past three decades, resulting in new motivation for study in r s3risingly different directions. Beyond the intrinsic interest in the study of integrable models of many-particle systems, spin chains, lattice and field theory models at both the classical and the quantum level, and completely solvable models in statistical mechanics, there have been new applications in relation to a number of other fields of current interest. These fields include theoretical physics and pure mathematics, for example the Seiberg-Witten approach to supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory, the spectral theory of random matrices, topological models of quantum gravity, conformal field theory, mirror symmetry, quantum cohomology, etc. This collection gives a nice cross-section of the current state of the work in the area of integrable systems which is presented by some of the leading active researchers in this field. The scope and quality of the articles in this volume make this a valuable resource for those interested in an up-to-date introduction and an overview of many of the main areas of study in the theory of integral systems.

Papers in this volume are based on the Workshop on Symmetries in Physics held at the Centre de recherches mathematiques (University of Montreal) in memory of Robert T. Sharp. Contributed articles are on a variety of topics revolving around the theme of symmetry in physics. The preface presents a biographical and scientific retrospect of the life and work of Robert Sharp. Other articles in the volume represent his diverse range of interests, including representation theoretic methods for Lie algebras, quantization techniques and foundational considerations, modular group invariants and applications to conformal models, various physical models and equations, geometric calculations with symmetries, and pedagogical methods for developing spatio-temporal intuition. The book is suitable for graduate students and researchers interested in group theoretic methods, symmetries, and mathematical physics.

Superintegrable systems are integrable systems (classical and quantum) that have more integrals of motion than degrees of freedom. Such systems have many interesting properties. This title is based on the Workshop on Superintegrability in Classical and Quantum Systems organized by the Centre de Recherches Mathematiques in Montreal (Quebec).

Superintegrable systems are integrable systems (classical and quantum) that have more integrals of motion than degrees of freedom. Such systems have many interesting properties. This title is based on the Workshop on Superintegrability in Classical and Quantum Systems organized by the Centre de Recherches Mathematiques in Montreal (Quebec).