wyszukanych pozycji: 16
Spinors and Space-Time: Volume 2, Spinor and Twistor Methods in Space-Time Geometry
ISBN: 9780521347860 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Spinor and Twistor Methods in Space-Time Geometry introduces the theory of twistors, and studies in detail how the theory of twistors and 2-spinors can be applied to the study of space-time. Twistors have, in recent years, attracted increasing attention as a mathematical tool and as a means of gaining new insights into the structure of physical laws. This volume also includes a comprehensive treatment of the conformal approach to space-time infinity with results on general-relativistic mass and angular momentum, a detailed spinorial classification of the full space-time curvature tensor, and...
Spinor and Twistor Methods in Space-Time Geometry introduces the theory of twistors, and studies in detail how the theory of twistors and 2-spinors ca...
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404,28 zł |
Pomeron Physics and QCD
ISBN: 9780521675703 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This volume gives an account of modern knowledge of Regge Theory and QCD, an active area of high-energy particle-physics research. It records what has been learned in the past, what is relevant now, and what is essential for the future. The authors cover forty years of research and provide unique insight into the theory and its phenomenological development. The phenomenology is applied to a variety of reactions and is compared extensively with experiment. This is essential reading for particle physicists and is suitable as a graduate textbook.
This volume gives an account of modern knowledge of Regge Theory and QCD, an active area of high-energy particle-physics research. It records what has...
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412,79 zł |
Essential Quantum Physics
ISBN: 9780521629935 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This is a first course on quantum mechanics and describes simple applications to physical phenomena that are of immediate and everyday interest. The first five chapters introduce the fundamentals of quantum mechanics and are followed by a quiz so readers can test themselves. The remaining chapters describe applications, including the physics of lasers, molecular binding, simple properties of crystalline solids arising from their band structure, and the operation of junction transistors. This new expanded edition now includes a chapter on the theory of spin and its application to magnetic...
This is a first course on quantum mechanics and describes simple applications to physical phenomena that are of immediate and everyday interest. The f...
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217,55 zł |
Thermal Field Theory
ISBN: 9780521654777 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This text introduces the theoretical framework for describing the quark-gluon plasma, an important new state of matter. The first part of the book is a self-contained introduction to relativistic thermal field theory. Topics include the path integral approach, the real and imaginary time formalisms, fermion fields and gauge fields at finite temperature. The author illustrates useful techniques such as the evaluation of frequency sums and the use of cutting rules. The second part of the book is devoted to recent developments, and gives a detailed account of collective excitations (bosonic and...
This text introduces the theoretical framework for describing the quark-gluon plasma, an important new state of matter. The first part of the book is ...
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340,40 zł |
Advanced General Relativity
ISBN: 9780521449465 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A modern self-contained introduction to key topics in advanced general relativity. The opening chapter reviews the subject, with strong emphasis on the geometric structures underlying the theory. The next chapter discusses 2-component spinor theory, its usefulness for describing zero-mass fields, its practical application via Newman-Penrose formalism, together with examples and applications. The subsequent chapter is an account of the asymptotic theory far from a strong gravitational source, describing the mathematical theory by which measurements of the far-field and gravitational radiation...
A modern self-contained introduction to key topics in advanced general relativity. The opening chapter reviews the subject, with strong emphasis on th...
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247,03 zł |
Quantum Gravity in 2+1 Dimensions
ISBN: 9780521545884 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This timely volume provides a broad survey of (2+1)-dimensional quantum gravity. It emphasises the ???quantum cosmology??? of closed universes and the quantum mechanics of the (2+1)-dimensional black hole. It compares and contrasts a variety of approaches, and examines what they imply for a realistic theory of quantum gravity. General relativity in three spacetime dimensions has become a popular arena in which to explore the ramifications of quantum gravity. As a diffeomorphism-invariant theory of spacetime structure, this model shares many of the conceptual problems of realistic quantum...
This timely volume provides a broad survey of (2+1)-dimensional quantum gravity. It emphasises the ???quantum cosmology??? of closed universes and the...
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402,47 zł |
Spinors and Space-Time: Volume 1, Two-Spinor Calculus and Relativistic Fields
ISBN: 9780521337076 / Angielski / Miękka / 1987 / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This volume introduces and systematically develops the calculus of 2-spinors. This is the first detailed exposition of this technique whichleads not only to a deeper understanding of the structure of space-time, but also provides shortcuts to some very tedious calculations.
This volume introduces and systematically develops the calculus of 2-spinors. This is the first detailed exposition of this technique whichleads not o...
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251,95 zł |
String Theory
ISBN: 9780521633031 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The two volumes that comprise String Theory provide an up-to-date, comprehensive account of string theory. Volume 1 provides a thorough introduction to the bosonic string, based on the Polyakov path integral and conformal field theory. The first four chapters introduce the central ideas of string theory, the tools of conformal field theory, the Polyakov path integral, and the covariant quantization of the string. The book then treats string interactions: the general formalism, and detailed treatments of the tree level and one loop amplitudes. Toroidal compactification and many important...
The two volumes that comprise String Theory provide an up-to-date, comprehensive account of string theory. Volume 1 provides a thorough introduction t...
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610,72 zł |
Gauge Field Theories
ISBN: 9780521478168 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 632 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Quantum field theory forms the present theoretical framework for our understanding of the fundamental interactions of particle physics. This updated and expanded volume examines gauge theories and their symmetries with an emphasis on their physical and technical aspects. A new introductory chapter gives a systematic overview to classical field theories and a short discussion of their canonical quantization and the discrete symmetries C, P and T. Coverage provides a brief exposition of perturbation theory, the renormalization program, and the use of the renormalization group equation. It then...
Quantum field theory forms the present theoretical framework for our understanding of the fundamental interactions of particle physics. This updated a...
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537,01 zł |
Kinetic Theory in the Expanding Universe
ISBN: 9780521607469 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Kinetic Theory in the Expanding Universe is a self-contained exposition of the applications of kinetic theory to basic problems in modern cosmology, such as the role of stable and unstable massive neutrinos and the theory of cosmological helium production. There has been rapid development of the theory of the origin and evolution of the universe in recent years, stimulated, in large part, by new observations and theories in astrophysics and particle physics. Bernstein takes a different approach and studies what can be concluded from the application of kinetic theory, and in particular the...
Kinetic Theory in the Expanding Universe is a self-contained exposition of the applications of kinetic theory to basic problems in modern cosmology, s...
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304,42 zł |
String Theory
ISBN: 9780521633048 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 552 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Volume 2: Superstring Theory and Beyond, begins with an introduction to supersymmetric string theories and goes on to a broad presentation of the important advances of recent years. The book first introduces the type I, type II, and heterotic superstring theories and their interactions. It then goes on to present important recent discoveries about strongly coupled strings, beginning with a detailed treatment of D-branes and their dynamics, and covering string duality, M-theory, and black hole entropy, and discusses many classic results in conformal field theory. The final four chapters are...
Volume 2: Superstring Theory and Beyond, begins with an introduction to supersymmetric string theories and goes on to a broad presentation of the impo...
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610,72 zł |
Relativity on Curved Manifolds
ISBN: 9780521266390 / Angielski / Twarda / 1990 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. General relativity is now essential to the understanding of modern physics, but the power of the theory cannot be exploited fully without a detailed knowledge of its mathematical structure. This book aims to implement this structure, and then to develop those applications that have been central to the growth of the theory.
General relativity is now essential to the understanding of modern physics, but the power of the theory cannot be exploited fully without a detailed k...
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812,20 zł |
Cosmic Strings and Other Topological Defects
ISBN: 9780521654760 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 580 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book is a comprehensive and coherent introduction to the role of cosmic strings and other topological defects in the universe. After an introduction to standard cosmological theory and the theory of phase transitions in the early universe, the book then describes, in turn, the properties, formation, and cosmological implications of cosmic strings, monopoles, domain walls and textures. It concludes with a chapter considering the role of topological defects in inflationary universe models. Ample introductory material is included to make the book readily accessible. It will be of interest...
This book is a comprehensive and coherent introduction to the role of cosmic strings and other topological defects in the universe. After an introduct...
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202,81 zł |
Gravitational Physics of Stellar and Galactic Systems
ISBN: 9780521349758 / Angielski / Miękka / 1987 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This text describes the gravitational interactions and evolution of astronomical systems on all scales, from small groups of stars through galaxies and clusters of galaxies to the Universe itself. In a rapidly developing area of astronomy, it is the first comprehensive treatise on the subject to be published since the early 1960s. Concentrating on the basic physics, at a graduate student level, it also develops many astronomical applications in considerable detail. The book is self-contained. Most results are derived from preceding ones in a straightforward way. It is written to bring out the...
This text describes the gravitational interactions and evolution of astronomical systems on all scales, from small groups of stars through galaxies an...
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306,00 zł |
Neutrino Physics
ISBN: 9780521650038 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 594 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Thoroughly revised and updated, this new edition presents a comprehensive overview of modern neutrino physics. The book covers all the major areas of current interest. An international group of distinguished contributors discuss the intrinsic properties of neutrinos, the theory of the interaction of neutrinos with matter, experimental investigations of the weak interaction in neutrino processes, the theory and supporting experiment for the basic properties of the interaction of neutrinos with fermions, and neutrinos in astrophysics and cosmology. This edition presents new data on solar...
Thoroughly revised and updated, this new edition presents a comprehensive overview of modern neutrino physics. The book covers all the major areas of ...
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939,96 zł |
Supersymmetric Quantum Cosmology
ISBN: 9780521675628 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A comprehensive and coherent introduction to modern quantum cosmology.
A comprehensive and coherent introduction to modern quantum cosmology.
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288,93 zł |