Field Theory, Quantization and Statistical Physics: In Memory of Bernard Jouvet

ISBN-13: 9789400983700 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 324 str.

E. Tirapegui

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It is with great emotion that we present here this volume dedicated to the memory of Bernard Jouvet, Docteur es Sciences, Directeur des Recher- ches at the Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique. The life and the career as a physicist of Professor Jouvet are evoked in the following pages by Professor F. Cerulus, a friend of long standing of Professor Jouvet. The contributions have been written by physicists who were friends, collaborators or former students of Professor Jouvet. I express here my gratitude for their contributions. I wish also to thank Mrs. France Jouvet for her kind help in the realiza- tion of this book. Without her support this would have been impossible. I am also especially indebted to Professor M. Flato for his constant encouragement and kind cooperation, and to F. Langouche and D. Roekaerts for their generous help in the preparation of this volume. E. TIRAPEGUI TABLE OF CONTENTS FOREWORD VII BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH XI XIX LIST OF SELECTED SCIENTIFIC PUBLICA TIONS PART ONE: FIELD THEORY AND QUANTIZATION C. BECCHI, A. ROUET and R. sToRA/Renormalizable Theories with Symmetry Breaking 3 J. CALMET and A. VISCONTI/Computing Methods in Quantum Electrodynamics 33 GERARD CLEMENT/Classical Mechanics of Autocomposite Particles 59 s. DEsER/Exclusion of Static Solutions in Gravity-Matter Coupling 77 D. ARNAL, J. C. COR TET, M. FLATO and D. STERNHEIMER/ Star-Products: Quantization and Representations without Operators 85 R. GASTMANs/High Energy Tests of Quantum Electrodynamics 113 L. GOMBEROFF and E. K.

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One: Field Theory and Quantization.- Renormalizable Theories with Symmetry Breaking.- Computing Methods in Quantum Electrodynamics.- Classical Mechanics of Autocomposite Particles.- Exclusion of Static Solutions in Gravity-Matter Coupling.- Star-Products: Quantization and Representations without Operators.- High Energy Tests of Quantum Electrodynamics.- Non-Ideal Effects on the Stability of a Cylindrical Current-Carrying Plasma.- Broken Symmetry of Lie Groups of Transformation Generating General Relativistic Theories of Gravitation.- Ward-Takahashi Identities and Gauge Invariance.- Towards the Early Stages of the Universe.- Covariant Quantizations of the Maxwell Field.- Gauss’ Law in Local Quantum Field Theory.- Discrete States Buried in the Continuum.- Two: Statistical Physics.- Some Universal Aspects of the Transition to Stochasticity for Non-Conservative Dynamical Systems.- Hydrodynamic Models with Random Forces.- High-Temperature Study of Planar Rotator- and XY-Models for Dimensions D ? 2.- General Langevin Equations and Functional Integration.