Symmetry breaking in classical systems

Franco Strocchi (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

67 Seiten

1999
Scuola Normale Superiore (Verlag)
978-88-7642-262-1 (ISBN)

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These notes essentially reproduce lectures given at the International School for Advances Studies (Trieste) and at the Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa) on various occasions. The scope of the short series of lectures was to extend on general grounds, also to mathematicians, the phenomenon of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking (SSB), a mechanism which seems at the basis of the recent developments in theoretical physics (from statistical mechanics to many-body theory and to elementary particle theory). Besides its extraordinary success, the idea of SSB deserves being discussed also because of its innovative philosophical content and in our opinion it should be part of the background knowledge for mathematical and theoretical physics students, especially those who are interested in questions of principle and in general mathematical structures.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.10.1999
Reihe/Serie	Publications of the Scuola Normale Superiore
Zusatzinfo	VI, 67 p.
Verlagsort	Pisa
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 240 mm
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Theoretische Physik
ISBN-10	88-7642-262-5 / 8876422625
ISBN-13	978-88-7642-262-1 / 9788876422621
Zustand	Neuware