Collected Papers Vol.1: Quantum Field Theory and Statistical Mechanics | Expositions

James Glimm (u. a.)

ISBN 10: 3764332719 / ISBN 13: 9783764332716

Published by Birkhäuser, 1985

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Collected Papers Vol.1: Quantum Field Theory and Statistical Mechanics | Expositions | James Glimm (u. a.) | Buch | Contemporary Physicists | Englisch | 1985 | Birkhäuser | EAN 9783764332716 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Springer-Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg, productsafety[at]springernature[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.

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• Title: Collected Papers Vol.1: Quantum Field Theory and Statistical Mechanics | Expositions
• Publisher: Birkhäuser
• Publication Date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3764332719
• ISBN 13: 9783764332716
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 260W x 183H x 28D millimeters 260 millimeters width by 183 millimeters height by 28 millimeters depth
• Weight: 1005 grams
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This volume contains a selection of expository articles on quantum field theory and statistical mechanics by James Glimm and Arthur Jaffe. They include a solution of the original interacting quantum field equations and a description of the physics which these equations contain. Quantum fields were proposed in the late 1920s as the natural framework which combines quantum theory with relativ­ ity. They have survived ever since. The mathematical description for quantum theory starts with a Hilbert space H of state vectors. Quantum fields are linear operators on this space, which satisfy nonlinear wave equations of fundamental physics, including coupled Dirac, Max­ well and Yang-Mills equations. The field operators are restricted to satisfy a "locality" requirement that they commute (or anti-commute in the case of fer­ mions) at space-like separated points. This condition is compatible with finite propagation speed, and hence with special relativity. Asymptotically, these fields converge for large time to linear fields describing free particles. Using these ideas a scattering theory had been developed, based on the existence of local quantum fields.