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DTP-96/1 hep-th/9601055 Reflections E. Corrigan Department of Mathematical Sciences 6 9 University of Durham 9 Durham DH1 3LE, England 1 n a J 6 2 2 Talk given at the VII Regional Conference on Mathematical Physics, Bandar e Anzali, v Iran, 15-22 October 1995. 5 5 0 1 1. Introduction 0 6 9 The purpose of this talk is to address a couple of simple-sounding questions: what / boundary conditions are compatible with h t- (a) Classical integrability? p (b) Quantum integrability? e h Much is now known about classical and quantum integrability for field theories defined : v over the whole line in a two-dimensional space-time with several classes of models (eg affine i X Toda theory, or σ-models) having been particularly well studied. On the other hand, the r situation in which the line is truncated to a half-line, or to an interval, is hardly explored a except for the choice of Neumann, or periodic boundary conditions, respectively. Recently, there has been renewed interest in this topic following investigations in condensed matter physics in which boundaries play a significant rˆole. In particular, the sine-Gordon model has been studied afresh, with a number of new results obtained, notably by Ghoshal and Zamolodchikov [1,2], and others [3] (see also [4]). The sine-Gordon model is the simplest of the affine Toda field theories, based on the root data of the Lie algebra a1 , and it is therefore natural to