Luttinger model

Few models in many-body physics can be solved exactly and completely, and the Luttinger model is one of them. Its place in many-body theory resembles that of the two-dimensional Ising model in statistical physics. Researchers have kept returning to it since it was first proposed roughly fifty years ago.

The volume opens with reprinted copies of the landmark papers that first introduced the model and worked out its solution. It then gathers several contributions that map the main developments of the past half century and the newer lines of research that have grown out of them.