Functional Integration : Action and Symmetries Paperback / softback
by Pierre (Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, France) Cartier, Cecile (University of Texas, Austin) DeWitt-Morette
Part of the Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics series
Paperback / softback
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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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:480 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:10/06/2010
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- ISBN:9780521143578
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:480 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:10/06/2010
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- ISBN:9780521143578
