Methods of Quantization

Lectures Held at the 39. Universitätswochen für Kern- und Teilchenphysik, Schladming, Austria

Heimo Latal, Wolfgang Schweiger (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

XI, 228 Seiten

2013 | 1. Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2001
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-662-14336-0 (ISBN)

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Most of our present understanding of the elementary building blocks of matter and the forces between them is based on the quantized version of the field theories which are locally symmetric under gauge transformations. The present set of lecture notes gives both a status report and a survey of recent advances for the most important quantization methods in the field theories for elementary particle physics. The first part of the book introduces light-cone quantization as an interesting alternative to the commonly used covariant perturbation theory and functional-integral methods. Next, a general formalism for quantizing systems with constraints, the projection-operator approach, is presented and structural aspects of the renormalization problem for gauge invariant field theories are discussed. Finally, the mathematics underlying the functional-integral quantization is reviewed. Suitable as a reference for researchers in the field, the book will prove particularly useful for lecturers and graduate students in search of additional reading beyond the standard texts on quantum field theory.

Wolfgang Schweiger wurde 1951 in Traunstein geboren. Seit 1979 ist er als Autor und Journalist tätig. Er veröffentlichte Krimis und schrieb Drehbücher für TV-Serien.

Forms of Relativistic Dynamics.- Light-Cone Quantization: Foundations and Applications.- Quantization of Constrained Systems.- Algebraic Methods of Renormalization.- Functional Integrals for Quantum Theory.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	3.10.2013
Reihe/Serie	Lecture Notes in Physics
Zusatzinfo	XI, 228 p. 8 illus.
Verlagsort	Berlin
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	379 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Hochenergiephysik / Teilchenphysik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Quantenphysik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Theoretische Physik
Schlagworte	algebraic renormalization • light-cone quantization • Particle physics • Quantization • quantization of constrained systems • quantum field theory • renormalization • white-noise analysis
ISBN-10	3-662-14336-4 / 3662143364
ISBN-13	978-3-662-14336-0 / 9783662143360
Zustand	Neuware