Constructive Physics: Results in Field Theory, Statistical Mechanics and Condensed Matter Physics - Proceedings of the Conference Held at Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France, 25-27 July 1994

Addressing graduate students and researchers in physics and mathematics, this book is an introduction to modern constructive physics, field theory and statistical mechanics and a survey on the most recent research in this field. It presents the main technical tools such as cluster expansion and their implementation in the rigorous renormalization group, and studies physical models in some detail. The reader will find a study of the ultraviolet limit of the Gross-Neveu model, of continuous symmetry breaking and of self-avoiding random walks in statistical mechanics, as well as applications to solid-state physics. Mathematicians should find constructive methods useful for studies in partial differential equations.