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Operational Quantum Theory II

Relativistic Structures

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  • Serves as an informational guide to researchers in operational quantum physics and also as a text for graduate and high level undergraduate students

  • Differs from many textbooks in quantum mechanics and quantum field theory as it features a radical group operational foundation

  • Author is well known within the Max-Planck Institute as well as the theoretical physics community

Part of the book series: Operational Physics (OPPH)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XII
  2. Introduction

    Pages 1-15
  3. Lorentz Operations

    Pages 17-46
  4. Propagators

    Pages 73-93
  5. Massless Quantum Fields

    Pages 131-156
  6. Gauge Interactions

    Pages 157-205
  7. Harmonic Analysis

    Pages 207-269
  8. Spectrum of Spacetime

    Pages 299-330
  9. Back Matter

    Pages 331-333

About this book

Operational Quantum Theory II is a distinguished work on quantum theory at an advanced algebraic level. The classically oriented hierarchy with objects such as particles as the primary focus, and interactions of the objects as the secondary focus is reversed with the operational interactions as basic quantum structures. Quantum theory, specifically relativistic quantum field theory is developed the theory of Lie group and Lie algebra operations acting on both finite and infinite dimensional vector spaces. This book deals with the operational concepts of relativistic space time, the Lorentz and Poincaré group operations and their unitary representations, particularly the elementary articles. Also discussed are eigenvalues and invariants for non-compact operations in general as well as the harmonic analysis of noncompact nonabelian Lie groups and their homogeneous spaces. In addition to the operational formulation of the standard model of particle interactions, an attempt is made to understand the particle spectrum with the masses and coupling constants as the invariants and normalizations of a tangent representation structure of a an homogeneous space time model.

Operational Quantum Theory II aims to understand more deeply on an operational basis what one is working with in relativistic quantum field theory, but also suggests new solutions to previously unsolved problems.

Keywords

  • Eigenvalue
  • Lie algebra
  • Representation theory
  • Vector space
  • quantum mechanics

Authors and Affiliations

  • Werner-Heisenberg Institut, Max-Planck Institut fär Physik, München, Germany

    Heinrich Saller

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eBook USD 129.00
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Softcover Book USD 169.99
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Hardcover Book USD 169.99
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