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Acknowledgments<br />
Firstly I would like to thank my advisor Prof.Ashoke Sen for his able guidance, support,<br />
patience and many of the wonderful courses which he taught us during my five years of PhD<br />
at the Harish Chandra Reasearch Institute. Not only string theory, but whatever I know<br />
about the modern approaches to some of the classical problems I learned from him. I would<br />
also like to thank Prof.Justin David, Prof.Rajesh Gopakumar,Prof.Dileep Jatkar,Prof.Pinaki<br />
Majumdar and Prof.Sumathi Rao for many enlightening discussions about various aspects of<br />
physics. I am grateful to Arjun Bagchi, Rajesh Kumar Gupta, Shailesh Lal and Viveka Nand<br />
Singh for their help during the writting of the thesis. And last but not the least I would like<br />
to thank all the students and postdocs of HRI for their help and cooperation.<br />
I also want to thank Prof.Jayanta Kumar Bhattacharjee for introducing me for the first<br />
time into the world of scientific research and Prof.Amit Dutta for teaching me many of the<br />
techniques of modern condensed matter theory. I am grateful to Prof.Dipanjan Raichaudhuri<br />
for his constant encouragement when I was an undergraduate student in Presidency College,<br />
Calcutta.<br />
And last but not the least, I am grateful to my parents for their support and especially<br />
to my father for introducing me to the wonderful world of ”Russian Books on Mathematics”.