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Xi Yin
Nov17-04, 11:07 AM
<jabberwocky><div class="vbmenu_control"><a href="jabberwocky:;" onClick="newWindow=window.open('','usenetCode','toolbar=no, location=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,status=no ,width=650,height=400'); newWindow.document.write('<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Usenet ASCII</TITLE></HEAD><BODY topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 BGCOLOR=#F1F1F1><table border=0 width=625><td bgcolor=midnightblue><font color=#F1F1F1>This Usenet message\'s original ASCII form: </font></td></tr><tr><td width=449><br><br><font face=courier><UL><PRE>Is there a good reference that explains the continuum limit of XXX and XYZ\nspin (1/2) chains? I\'ve heard of the statement that XXX spin chain leads\nto SU(2) WZW model and XYZ spin chain leads to sine-Gordon model. Are\nthese two related in someway?\n\n[btw: this is not off topic since spin chains are really strings.:&gt;]\n\nThanks,\n-Xi\n\n</UL></PRE></font></td></tr></table></BODY><HTML>');"> <IMG SRC=/images/buttons/ip.gif BORDER=0 ALIGN=CENTER ALT="View this Usenet post in original ASCII form">&nbsp;&nbsp;View this Usenet post in original ASCII form </a></div><P></jabberwocky>Is there a good reference that explains the continuum limit of XXX and XYZ
spin (1/2) chains? I've heard of the statement that XXX spin chain leads
to SU(2) WZW model and XYZ spin chain leads to sine-Gordon model. Are
these two related in someway?

[btw: this is not off topic since spin chains are really strings.:>]

Thanks,
-\Xi