Conformal Symmetries and Constrained Critical Phenomena

This is a Ph.D. dissertation. Contents include: Introduction and outline, Simultaneous analysis of three-dimensional ising models, Cluster simulation of the transverse ising model, Conformal invariance: the ising model, Conformal invariance: the percolation model, Critical phenomena under energy-like and magnetic constraints, Constrained tricritical ising model in three dimensions, Constrained tricritical phenomena in two dimensions, Monte Carlo study of backbone exponents, Geometric properties of Potts configurations, Edge transitions of two-dimensional tricritical Potts models.Deng, Youjin is the author of 'Conformal Symmetries and Constrained Critical Phenomena', published 2004 under ISBN 9789040725487 and ISBN 9040725489.