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Symmetry Breaking (Lecture Notes in Physics)
Franco Strocchi
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Description for Symmetry Breaking (Lecture Notes in Physics)
Paperback. Series: Lecture Notes in Physics. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PHP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 355.
The main motivation for such lecture notes is the importance of the concept and mechanism of spontaneous symmetry breaking in modern theoretical physics and the relevance of a textbook exposition at the graduate student level beyond the oversimpli?ed (non-rigorous) treatments, often con?ned to speci?c models. One of the main points is to emphasize that the radical loss of symmetric behaviour requiresboth the existence of non-symmetric ground states and the in?nite extension of the system. The ?rst Part on SYMMETRY BREAKING IN CLASSICAL SYSTEMS is devoted to the mathematical understanding of spontaneous symmetry breaking on the basis of classical ?eld theory. ... Read more
The main motivation for such lecture notes is the importance of the concept and mechanism of spontaneous symmetry breaking in modern theoretical physics and the relevance of a textbook exposition at the graduate student level beyond the oversimpli?ed (non-rigorous) treatments, often con?ned to speci?c models. One of the main points is to emphasize that the radical loss of symmetric behaviour requiresboth the existence of non-symmetric ground states and the in?nite extension of the system. The ?rst Part on SYMMETRY BREAKING IN CLASSICAL SYSTEMS is devoted to the mathematical understanding of spontaneous symmetry breaking on the basis of classical ?eld theory. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Springer
Condition
New
Series
Lecture Notes in Physics
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Berlin, Germany
ISBN
9783642092732
SKU
V9783642092732
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Reviews for Symmetry Breaking (Lecture Notes in Physics)
From the reviews of the second edition: "This second edition of Strocchi’s Symmetry breaking presents a complete, generalized and highly rigorous discussion of the subject, based on a formal analysis of conditions necessary for the mechanism of spontaneous symmetry breaking to occur in classical systems, as well as in quantum systems. … this book is ... Read more