Functional Integration: Action and Symmetries Export

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TY - BOOK ID - citeulike:1973587 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1973587 N2 - Functional integration successfully entered physics as path integrals in the 1942 Ph.D. dissertation of Richard P. Feynman, but it made no sense at all as a mathematical definition. Cartier and DeWitt-Morette have created, in this book, a new approach to functional integration. The book is self-contained: mathematical ideas are introduced, developed generalised and applied. In the authors hands, functional integration is shown to be a robust, user-friendly and multi-purpose tool that can be applied to a great variety of situations, for example: systems of indistinguishable particles; Aharanov-Bohm systems; supersymmetry; non-gaussian integrals. Problems in quantum field theory are also considered. In the final part the authors outline topics that can be profitably pursued using material already presented. SN - 0521866960 TI - Functional Integration: Action and Symmetries PB - Cambridge University Press KW - functional_integration KW - symmetries AU - Cartier, Pierre AU - Dewitt-Morette, Cecile PY - 2007/01/15/ UR - http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike09-20&path=ASIN/0521866960 ER -