9789812791719
Multivalued fields in condensed matter, electromagnetism, and
gravitation.
Kleinert, Hagen.
World Scientific
2008
497 pages
$38.00
Paperback
QC173
Kleinert's work includes flexible manipulation of coordinates
that led to his evaluation of the path integral for the Coulomb
potential. Here he begins with the basics, explaining such topics as
Galilean invariance of Newtonian mechanics and Lorentz invariance of
Maxwell equations, quantum mechanics, angular moment and spin, and
space-time dependent Lorentz transformations. He explains the action
approach, including its relation to Maxwell's equation and Dirac
fields, then examines continuous symmetries and conservation laws,
magnetostatics, multivalued fields in superfluids and superconductors,
magnetic monopoles, electric charge confinement, multivalued mapping
from ideal crystals to crystals with defects, defect melting,
relativistic mechanics in curvilinear coordinates, torsion and curvature
from defects and embedding, mutivalued mapping, field equations of
gravitation, fields of integer spin, particles with half-integer spins,
covariant conservation gravitation of spinning matter as a gauge theory,
evanescent properties of torsion in gravity, the teleparallel theory of
gravitation embedding, and emerging gravity.
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