9780521143578 - Functional Integration: Action and Symmetries (Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics) von Cartier, Pierre (3 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: New. The powerful tool of functional integration is widely applied and shown to be user-friendly and mathematically robust. Series: Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics. Num Pages: 480 pages, 49 b/w illus. BIC Classification: PHS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 170 x 25. Weight in Grams: 760. . 2010. Reissue. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Functional integration successfully entered physics as path integrals in the 1942 PhD dissertation of Richard P. Feynman, but it made no sense at all as a mathematical definition. Cartier and DeWitt-Morette have created, in this book, a fresh approach to functional integration. The book is self-contained: mathematical ideas are introduced, developed, generalised and applied. In the authors' hands, functional integration is shown to be a robust, user-friendly and multi-purpose tool that can be applied to a great variety of situations, for example: systems of indistinguishable particles; Aharonov-Bohm systems; supersymmetry; non-gaussian integrals. Problems in quantum field theory are also considered. In the final part the authors outline topics that can be profitably pursued using material already presented.