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Methods of Quantization: Lectures Held at the 39. Universitätswochen für Kern- und Teilchenphysik, Schladming, Austria (Lecture Notes in Physics)
Heimo Latal (Ed.)
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Hardcover. Editor(s): Latal, Heimo; Schweiger, Wolfgang. Series: Lecture Notes in Physics. Num Pages: 239 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: PHQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 532.
Thisvolumecontainsthewrittenversionsofinvitedlecturespresentedat the 39. InternationaleUniversitatswochenfur .. Kern-undTeilchenphysik in Schladming, Austria, which took place from February 26th to March 4th, 2000. The title of the school was Methods of Quantization . This is, of course,averybroad?eld,soonlysomeofthenewandinterestingdevel- mentscouldbecoveredwithinthescopeoftheschool. About75yearsagoSchrodingerpresentedhisfamouswaveequationand Heisenbergcameupwithhisalgebraicapproachtothequantum-theoretical treatmentofatoms. Aimingmainlyatanappropriatedescriptionofatomic systems, these original developments did not take into consideration E- stein'stheoryofspecialrelativity. WiththeworkofDirac,Heisenberg,and Pauliitsoonbecameobviousthatauni?edtreatmentofrelativisticandqu- tume?ectsisachievedbymeansoflocalquantum?eldtheory,i. e. anintrinsic many-particletheory. Mostofourpresentunderstandingoftheelementary buildingblocksofmatterandtheforcesbetweenthemisbasedonthequ- tizedversionof?eldtheorieswhicharelocallysymmetricundergaugetra- formations. Nowadays,theprevailingtoolsforquantum-?eldtheoreticalc- culationsarecovariantperturbationtheoryandfunctional-integralmethods. Beingnotmanifestlycovariant,theHamiltonianapproachtoquantum-?eld theorieslagssomewhatbehind,althoughitresemblesverymuchthefamiliar nonrelativisticquantummechanicsofpointparticles. Aparticularlyintere- ingHamiltonianformulationofquantum-?eldtheoriesisobtainedbyqu- tizingthe?eldsonhypersurfacesoftheMinkowsispacewhicharetangential tothelightcone. The timeevolution ofthesystemisthenconsideredin + light-conetime x =t+z/c. Theappealingfeaturesof light-conequ- tization ,whicharethereasonsfortherenewedinterestinthisformulation ofquantum?eldtheories,werehighlightedinthelecturesofBernardBakker andThomasHeinzl. Oneoftheopenproblemsoflight-conequantizationis theissueofspontaneoussymmetrybreaking. Thiscanbetracedbacktozero modeswhich,ingeneral,aresubjecttocomplicatedconstraintequations. A generalformalismforthequantizationofphysicalsystemswithconstraints waspresentedbyJohnKlauder. Theperturbativede?nitionofquantum?eld theoriesisingenerala?ictedbysingularitieswhichareovercomebyare- larizationandrenormalizationprocedure. Structuralaspectsoftherenormal- VI Preface izationprobleminthecaseofgaugeinvariant?eldtheorieswerediscussed inthelectureofKlausSibold. ... Read more
Thisvolumecontainsthewrittenversionsofinvitedlecturespresentedat the 39. InternationaleUniversitatswochenfur .. Kern-undTeilchenphysik in Schladming, Austria, which took place from February 26th to March 4th, 2000. The title of the school was Methods of Quantization . This is, of course,averybroad?eld,soonlysomeofthenewandinterestingdevel- mentscouldbecoveredwithinthescopeoftheschool. About75yearsagoSchrodingerpresentedhisfamouswaveequationand Heisenbergcameupwithhisalgebraicapproachtothequantum-theoretical treatmentofatoms. Aimingmainlyatanappropriatedescriptionofatomic systems, these original developments did not take into consideration E- stein'stheoryofspecialrelativity. WiththeworkofDirac,Heisenberg,and Pauliitsoonbecameobviousthatauni?edtreatmentofrelativisticandqu- tume?ectsisachievedbymeansoflocalquantum?eldtheory,i. e. anintrinsic many-particletheory. Mostofourpresentunderstandingoftheelementary buildingblocksofmatterandtheforcesbetweenthemisbasedonthequ- tizedversionof?eldtheorieswhicharelocallysymmetricundergaugetra- formations. Nowadays,theprevailingtoolsforquantum-?eldtheoreticalc- culationsarecovariantperturbationtheoryandfunctional-integralmethods. Beingnotmanifestlycovariant,theHamiltonianapproachtoquantum-?eld theorieslagssomewhatbehind,althoughitresemblesverymuchthefamiliar nonrelativisticquantummechanicsofpointparticles. Aparticularlyintere- ingHamiltonianformulationofquantum-?eldtheoriesisobtainedbyqu- tizingthe?eldsonhypersurfacesoftheMinkowsispacewhicharetangential tothelightcone. The timeevolution ofthesystemisthenconsideredin + light-conetime x =t+z/c. Theappealingfeaturesof light-conequ- tization ,whicharethereasonsfortherenewedinterestinthisformulation ofquantum?eldtheories,werehighlightedinthelecturesofBernardBakker andThomasHeinzl. Oneoftheopenproblemsoflight-conequantizationis theissueofspontaneoussymmetrybreaking. Thiscanbetracedbacktozero modeswhich,ingeneral,aresubjecttocomplicatedconstraintequations. A generalformalismforthequantizationofphysicalsystemswithconstraints waspresentedbyJohnKlauder. Theperturbativede?nitionofquantum?eld theoriesisingenerala?ictedbysingularitieswhichareovercomebyare- larizationandrenormalizationprocedure. Structuralaspectsoftherenormal- VI Preface izationprobleminthecaseofgaugeinvariant?eldtheorieswerediscussed inthelectureofKlausSibold. ... Read more
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Hardback
Publication date
2001
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Lecture Notes in Physics
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228
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9783540421009
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