How is quantum field theory possible? / Sunny Y. Auyang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Auyang, Sunny Y., author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Quantum field theory.

Physics--Philosophy.

Physics.

Space and time.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How can we know the microscopic world without a measurement theory? What are the general conditions of the world that make possible such knowledge? What are the presuppositions of physical theories? This book includes an analysis of quantum field theory, and quantum mechanics and interacting systems are addressed in a unified framework.

Contents:

CONTENTS; 1. Introduction; 2. Nonrelativistic quantum mechanics; 3. Relativity and symmetries; 4. Quantum field theory; 5. Object of experiences: quantum state-observables-statistics; 6. The event structure and the spatio-temporal structure: local fields; 7. Explicit relations and the causal order: interacting fields; 8. Epilogue; APPENDIX A. Measure and probability: quantity, quality, modality; APPENDIX B. Fiber bundles and interaction dynamics; APPENDIX C. The cosmic and the microscopic: an application; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1995.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-272) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-773231-3

1-280-44195-X

9786610441952

0-19-535761-2

1-60256-016-1

OCLC:

191038207