Fluctuating paths and fields : festschrift dedicated to Hagen Kleinert on the occasion of his 60th birthday / editors, Wolfhard Janke ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kleinert, Hagen.

Janke, W. (Wolfhard)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Path integrals.

Quantum field theory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (872 p.)

Place of Publication:

Singapore ; River Edge, N.J. : World Scientific, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume covers the following fields: path integrals, quantum field theory, variational perturbation theory, phase transitions and critical phenomena, topological defects, strings and membranes, gravitation and cosmology. <br><i>Contents:</i><ul><li><i><i>Path Integrals and Quantum Mechanics:</i></i><ul><li>Semiclassical Quantum Mechanics: A Path-Integral Approach <i>(B R Holstein)</i></li><li>Conjecture on the Reality of Spectra of Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians <i>(C M Bender et al.)</i></li><li>Time-Transformation Approach to <i>q</i>-Deformed Objects <i>(A Inomata)</i></li><li>Characterizi

Contents:

Contents ; Preface ; Special Lecture: How Does God Throw Dice? Speculations About Quantum Mechanics at the Planck Scale ; Part I: Path Integrals and Quantum Mechanics ; Semiclassical Quantum Mechanics: A Path-Integral Approach ; Forward-Backward Semiclassical Dynamics

The Feynman Path Goes Monte Carlo Coordinate Independence of Path Integrals in One-Dimensional Target Space ; Perturbatively Defined Path Integral in Phase Space ; The Use of Non-Relativistic Path Integrals in Field Theories ; Path Integration and Coherent States for the 5D Hydrogen Atom

The Aharonov-Bohm Effect in Four Dimensions Path Integral for Separable Hamiltonians of Liouville-Type ; Conjecture on the Reality of Spectra of Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians ; Time-Transformation Approach to Q-Deformed Objects ; Feynman Integral on a Group ; Characterizing Volume Forms

Vassiliev Invariants and Functional Integration Part II: Quantum Field Theory ; Higher Algebraic Geometrization Emerging from Noncommutativity ; Dynamical Fermion Masses Under the Influence of Kaluza-Klein Fermions in Randall-Sundrum Background

The Ultraviolet Fixed-Point in Quantum Electrodynamics - Adler Conjecture: Is QED Trivial? From Z Operator to SO(10) Neutrino Oscillations and Fermi-Dirac Functions for Quark Parton Distributions ; A Tilt at Constituent Quarks ; The Breaking of Isospin and the p-w System

Analytic Confinement and Regge Spectrum

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611956707

9781281956705

1281956708

9789812811240

9812811249

OCLC:

879024028