CLASSICAL & QUANTUM DYNAMICS OF... (V81)

This book is an introduction to the field of constrained Hamiltonian systems and their quantization, a topic which is of central interest to theoretical physicists who wish to obtain a deeper understanding of the quantization of gauge theories, such as describing the fundamental interactions in nature. Beginning with the early work of Dirac, the book covers the main developments in the field up to more recent topics, such as the fieldantifield formalism of Batalin and Vilkovisky, including a short discussion of how gauge anomalies may be incorporated into this formalism. The book is comprehensive and well-illustrated with examples, enables graduate students to follow the literature on this subject without much problems, and to perform research in this field.

List of contents

Singular Lagrangians and Local Symmetries; Hamiltonian Approach. The Dirac Formalism; Symplectic Approach to Constrained Systems; Local Symmetries within the Dirac Formalism; The Dirac Conjecture; BFT Embedding of Second Class Systems; Hamilton-Jacobi for Constrained Systems; Operator Quantization of Second Class Systems; Functional Quantization of Second Class Systems; Dynamical Gauges. BFV Functional Quantization; Field-Antifield Quantization;

Product details

• Authors: Heinz J Rothe & Klaus D Rothe, Heinz J. Rothe, Klaus D. Rothe, Klaus Dieter Rothe
• Publisher: World Scientific
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.04.2010
• EAN: 9789814299640
• ISBN: 978-981-4299-64-0
• No. of pages: 318
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 613 g
• Series: World Scientific Lecture Notes
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Theoretical physics