Functional Integration: Basics and Applications

ISBN-13: 9780306456176 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 431 str.

C. DeWitt-Morette; Cecile DeWitt-Morette; Antoine Folacci

Opis

Contains papers form the September 1996 study institute, covering mathematical foundations of functional integration, applications in mathematics, physics, and chemistry, and the use of analytic and numerical computation techniques. Subjects include the quantum equivalence principle, variational per

Spis treści

A Rigorous Mathematical Foundation of Functional Integration; P. Cartier, et al. Physics on and Near Caustics; C. DeWitt-Morette with P. Cartier. Quantum Equivalence Principle; H. Kleinert. Variational Perturbation Theory for Path Integrals; H. Kleinert. Functional Integration and Wave Propagation; S.K. Foong. Monte Carlo Methods in Statistical Mechanics: Foundations and New Algorithms; A. Sokal. Path Integral Simulation of Long-Time Dynamics in Quantum Dissipative Systems; N. Makri. Développements récents sur les Groupes de Tresses. Applications à la Topologie et à l'alèbre; P. Cartier. An Introduction to Knot Theory and Functional Integrals; L. Kauffman. Locally Self-Avoiding Walks; D. Iagolnitzer, J. Magnen. Gauge Theory Without Ghosts; B. DeWitt. Localization and Diagonalization: A Review of Functional Integral Techniques for Low-Dimensional Gauge Theories and Topological Field Theories; M. Blau, G. Thompson. Index.