Theoretical Physics Fin de Siècle [electronic resource] : Proceedings of the XII Max Born Symposium Held in Wrocław, Poland, 23–26 September 1998 / edited by Andrzej Borowiec, Wojciech Cegła, Bernard Jancewicz, Witold Karwowski.

Max Born and Molecular Theory -- Max Born and Molecular Theory -- Quantum Physics: Basic Problems -- Trying to Divide the Universe -- Modal Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics and Classical Physical Theories -- On Localisation in Relativistic Quantum Mechanics -- Dynamical Equivalence, Commutation Relations and Noncommutative Geometry -- Quantum Channels of the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Kind -- Quantum Physics: Different Approach -- Quantum Dynamics in the Proper Time -- Is It Possible to Construct Exactly Solvable Models? -- Summational Invariants -- Relative Entropy Estimates in Statistical Mechanics and Field Theory -- Partial *-Algebras: A Retrospective -- Banach Partial *-Algebras and Quantum Models -- Supersymmetry and Quantum Deformations -- New Superparticle Models Outside the HLS Supersymmetry Scheme -- On the Implementation of Supersymmetry -- On Generalized Quantum Statistics -- q-Deformed Minkowski Algebra and Its Space-Time Lattice -- Particles, Fields and Geometry -- The New Inverse Problem of the Newton Law -- Particle in Curved 2d Space-Time -- Are There Two Sterile Neutrinos Cooscillating with ? e and ? ?? -- Magnetic Monopoles and Gravity -- Critical Behavior of Classical Spin Models and Local Cohomology -- Bose-Einstein Correlations in High Energy Multiple Particle Production Processes -- Reduction of Couplings in Massive Models of Quantum Field Theory -- Abstracts -- Particle—Hole Asymmetry in the BCS Thermodynamics* -- On Generalizations of the Gravitational Interaction.

This collection of articles deals with many of the fundamental problems in quantum physics addressing current topics of research in quantum field theory and supersymmetry in particular. It has been written by leading researchers in the field emphasizing the mathematical and conceptual aspects of the physical theories. Speculative topics at the very forefront of research have been included to illustrate the many open possibilities in contemporary theoretical and mathematical physics.