Path Integrals for Pedestrians - Couverture rigide

Gozzi, Ennio; Cattaruzza, Enrico; Pagani, Carlo

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9814603929 ISBN 13 : 9789814603928

Editeur : World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, 2016

Synopsis

This is a book on path integrals which provides a quick and swift description of the topic. It contains original material that never before has appeared in a book. The new topics include the path integrals for the Wigner functions and for Classical Mechanics.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

For the first time in an introductory text, the book includes a discussion of the path integral for classical mechanics which was pioneered by the first of its authors. This path integral establishes a close connection between many different fields like, for example, between Hamiltonian mechanics and the differential geometry of the phase-space manifold. It can also serve as a good pedagogical introduction to this last topic. --Dr Martin Reuter, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany

This short book provides a clear, pedagogical and insightful presentation of the subject. An interesting innovation in this book is that the authors provide a clear presentation of the path integral formulation of the Wigner functions, which are fundamental in the study of quantum statistical mechanics; and, for the first time in an elementary book, the work of Koopman and von Neumann on classical and statistical mechanics. It will be difficult to find a better and more compact introduction to this fundamental subject. --CERN Courier

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9814603929
• ISBN 13: 9789814603928
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 156
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible