Path Integrals for Pedestrians - Rilegato

Gozzi, Ennio; Catarruzza, Enrico; Pagani, Carlo

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 9814603929 ISBN 13: 9789814603928

Casa editrice: World Scientific Pub Co Inc, 2016

Riassunto

This book serves as a pedagogical tool to teach path integrals to students and provide work-out problems. It covers the path integral for Wigner functions and for classical mechanics. This book is also useful for researchers and professionals not familiar with the topics but are interested to learn.

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Recensione

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

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: World Scientific Pub Co Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 9814603929
• ISBN 13: 9789814603928
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 156
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile