Causality Rules: A Light Treatise on Dispersion Relations and Sum Rules

ISBN-13: 9781681749167 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 84 str.

Vladimir Pascalutsa

Opis

Scattering of light by light is a fundamental process arising at the quantum level through vacuum fluctuations. This book will explain how this quantum process can entirely be described in terms classical quantities. This description is derived from general principles, such as causality, unitarity, Lorentz, and gauge symmetries.

Spis treści

• Preface
• Author biography
• 1. Introduction and outline
• 2. Some rules for sum rules
• 3. Kramers-Kronig relation
• 4. Sum rules for Compton scattering
• 5. Virtual and quasi-real Compton scattering
• 6. Sum rules for light-by-light scattering
• 7. Sum rules for vector bosons