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Applications in Mathematical Physics

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Part of the Lecture Notes in Mathematics book series (LNM,volume 1986)

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It turns out that pip-space methods have many applications in physics, although they are seldom mentioned as such. To draw on a literary analogy, like Molière’s Monsieur Jourdain speaking in prose without knowing so, many authors have been using pip-space language without realizing it. In particular, chains or lattices of Hilbert spaces are quite common in many fields of mathematical physics. Some of these applications will be discussed at length in this chapter. To mention a few examples: quantum mechanics, in particular singular interactions (Section 7.1.3), scattering theory (Section 7.2), quantum field theory (Section 7.3), representations of Lie groups (Section 7.4), etc.

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  • Hilbert Space
  • Unitary Representation
  • Dirac Formalism
  • Gamow Vector
  • Observable Vector

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Antoine, JP., Trapani, C. (2009). Applications in Mathematical Physics. In: Partial Inner Product Spaces. Lecture Notes in Mathematics(), vol 1986. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-05136-4_7

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