Classical Covariant Fields (Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics)

Burgess, Mark

ISBN 10: 0521813638 / ISBN 13: 9780521813631

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2002

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Classical Covariant Fields (Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521813638
• ISBN 13: 9780521813631
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

This book discusses the classical foundations of field theory, using the language of variational methods and covariance. It explores the limits of what can be achieved with purely classical notions, and shows how these classical notions have a deep and important connection with the second quantized field theory, which follows on from the Schwinger Action Principle. Its pragmatic view of field theory focuses on issues which are usually omitted from quantum field theory texts and catalogs results which are often hard to find in the literature.

About the Author

Mark Burgess obtained his PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne in 1990. He held a Royal Society fellowship at the University of Oslo from 1991 to 1992 and then had a two-year postdoctoral fellowship from the Norwegian Research Council. Since 1994 he has been an associate professor at Oslo University College. Dr Burgess has been invited to lecture at universities and institutes throughout the world, and has published numerous articles, as well as five previous books.