  This volume provides a detailed account of bosonization. The first part of
the book examines the technical aspects of bosonization including
one-dimensional fermions, the Gaussian model, the structure of Hilbert space in
conformal theories, Bose-Einstein condensation in two dimensions, non-Abelian
bosonization, and the Ising and WZNW models. The second part presents
applications of the bosonization technique to realistic models including the
Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid, spin liquids in one dimension and the spin-1/2
Heisenberg chain with alternative exchange. The third part addresses the
problems of quantum impurities. Chapters cover potential scattering, the X-ray
edge problem, impurities in Tomonaga-Luttinger liquids and the multi-channel
Kondo problem.
