Structural Arrest and the Dynamics of the Liquid Glass Transition

Concepts, mathematical argumentation, physical picture and scope of the mode coupling theory for the liquid glass transition as developed in a paper by Bengtzelius et al. and in succeeding work are summarized. An extensive discussion of the results for the glass form factors, discontinuities of thermodynamical functions, variation of transport coefficients, non exponential structural relaxation and scaling laws for the low frequency excitation spectra is presented.