Conformally invariant scaling limits: An overview and a collection of problems

International Congress of Mathematicians, ICM 2006

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 513-543

  Schramm, Oded ^a  

^a MICROSOFT   (United States)

Author keywords

Conformal invariance; Percolation; Statistical physics; Stochastic loewner evolutions

Indexed keywords

CONFORMAL INVARIANCE; MATHEMATICAL PROOF; ONE PARAMETER FAMILY; SCALING LIMITS; STATISTICAL PHYSICS; STOCHASTIC LOEWNER EVOLUTION; TWO-DIMENSION;

FORECASTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERCOLATION (SOLID STATE); SOLVENTS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

PHYSICS;

EID: 84878065831     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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