1999/05/17 by Robert Carroll, Carroll, Robert
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Mathematical Physics (math-ph) #Quantum chaos and dynamical systems #hep-th #math-ph #math.MP
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.math-ph/9905010
Latex, 79 pages. Section 10 has been reduced to a Remark and a short Section on TFT and WDVV has been added
openalex publication_date 1999/05/17 · arxiv created 1999/05/25 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We sketch some of the different roles played by Whitham times in connection with averaging, adiabatic invariants, soliton theory, Hamiltonian structures, Seiberg-Witten theory, isomonodromy problems, Hitchin systems, WDVV and Picard-Fuchs equations, renormalization, soft susy breaking, etc.