FLUCTUATING PATHS AND FIELDS – FESTSCHRIFT DEDICATED TO HAGEN KLEINERT ON THE OCCASION OF HIS 60TH BIRTHDAY
Author: W. Janke (Author), Wolfhard Janke (Author), Axel Pelster (Author), Michael Bachmann (Author)
Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc
Publication date: 2001-06-01
Language: English
Print length: 872 pages
ISBN-10: 981024648X
ISBN-13: 9789810246488
Book Description
Papers by students and colleagues of Hagen Kleinert, who is best known for his path-integral solution of the three-dimensional hydrogen atom based on non-holonomic space-time transformation in 1979, report on recent advances in the path-integral description of quantum physics, quantum field theory, variational perturbation theory, phase transitions and critical phenomena, the role of topological defects in phase transitions and in fluctuating strings and membranes, and questions related to gravitation, cosmology, and astrophysics. Specific topics include Vassiliev invariants and functional integration, higher algebraic geometrization emerging from noncommutivity, gauge symmetry and neural networks, and uniformly suitable estimation for thermodynamic values. Material originated at a June 2001 colloquium at the Frie UniversitSt Berlin. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)