Felix Berezin
Felix Berezin

Author: Mikhail A. Shifman

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 9812770488

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Felix Berezin was an outstanding Soviet mathematician who in the 1960s and 70s was the driving force behind the emergence of the branch of mathematics now known as supermathematics. The integral over the anticommuting Grassmann variables that he introduced in the 1960s laid the foundation for the path integral formulation of quantum field theory with fermions, the heart of modern supersymmetric field theories and superstrings. The Berezin integral is named for him, as is the closely related construction of the Berezinian, which may be regarded as the superanalog of the determinant. This book features a masterfully written memoir by BerezinOCOs widow, Elena Karpel, who narrates a remarkable account of BerezinOCOs life and his struggle for survival under the totalitarian Soviet regime. Supplemented with recollections by his close friends and colleagues, BerezinOCOs accomplishments in mathematics, his novel ideas and breakthrough works, are reviewed in two articles written by Andrei Losev and Robert Minlos."

Introduction to Superanalysis
Introduction to Superanalysis

Author: F.A. Berezin

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-04-09

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 9401719632

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TO SUPERANAL YSIS Edited by A.A. KIRILLOV Translated from the Russian by J. Niederle and R. Kotecky English translation edited and revised by Dimitri Leites SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Berezin, F.A. (Feliks Aleksandrovich) Introduction to superanalysis. (Mathematical physics and applied mathematics; v. 9) Part I is translation of: Vvedenie v algebru i analiz s antikommutirurushchimi peremennymi. Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Mathetical analysis. I. Title. II. Title: Superanalysis. III. Series. QA300. B459 1987 530. 15'5 87-16293 ISBN 978-90-481-8392-0 ISBN 978-94-017-1963-6 (eBook) DOI 10. 1007/978-94-017-1963-6 All Rights Reserved © 1987 by Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht Originally published by D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland in 1987 No part of the material protected by this copyright notice may be reproduced in whole or in part or utilized in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical including photocopying recording or storing in any electronic information system without first obtaining the written permission of the copyright owner. CONTENTS EDITOR'S FOREWORD ix INTRODUCTION 1 1. The Sources 1 2. Supermanifolds 3 3. Additional Structures on Supermanifolds 11 4. Representations of Lie Superalgebras and Supergroups 21 5. Conclusion 23 References 24 PART I CHAPTER 1. GRASSMANN ALGEBRA 29 1. Basic Facts on Associative Algebras 29 2. Grassmann Algebras 35 3. Algebras A(U) 55 CHAPTER 2. SUPERANAL YSIS 74 1. Derivatives 74 2. Integral 76 CHAPTER 3. LINEAR ALGEBRA IN Zz-GRADED SPACES 90 1.

Quantum Field Theory Ii
Quantum Field Theory Ii

Author: Misha Shifman

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2019-03-12

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 9813234202

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This textbook grew out of lecture notes the author used in delivering a quantum field theory (QFT) course for students (both in high energy physics and condensed matter) who already had an initial exposure to the subject.It begins with the path integral method of quantization presented in a systematic and clear-cut manner. Perturbation theory is generalized beyond tree level, to include radiative corrections (loops). Renormalization procedures and the Wilsonian renormalization group (RG flow) are discussed, asymptotic freedom of non-Abelian gauge theories is derived, and some applications in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) are considered, with a brief digression into the Standard Model (SM). The SM case requires a study of the spontaneous breaking of gauge symmetry, a phenomenon which would be more appropriate to call 'Higgsing of the gauge bosons.' Other regimes attainable in gauge theories are explained as well. In the condensed matter part, the Heisenberg and Ising model are discussed. The present textbook differs from many others in that it is relatively concise and, at the same time, teaches students to carry out actual calculations which they may encounter in QFT-related applications.

Mathematical Cultures
Mathematical Cultures

Author: Brendan Larvor

Publisher: Birkhäuser

Published: 2016-05-25

Total Pages: 457

ISBN-13: 3319285823

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This collection presents significant contributions from an international network project on mathematical cultures, including essays from leading scholars in the history and philosophy of mathematics and mathematics education.​ Mathematics has universal standards of validity. Nevertheless, there are local styles in mathematical research and teaching, and great variation in the place of mathematics in the larger cultures that mathematical practitioners belong to. The reflections on mathematical cultures collected in this book are of interest to mathematicians, philosophers, historians, sociologists, cognitive scientists and mathematics educators.

Toeplitz Matrices and Operators
Toeplitz Matrices and Operators

Author: Nikolaï Nikolski

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-01-02

Total Pages: 453

ISBN-13: 1108187579

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The theory of Toeplitz matrices and operators is a vital part of modern analysis, with applications to moment problems, orthogonal polynomials, approximation theory, integral equations, bounded- and vanishing-mean oscillations, and asymptotic methods for large structured determinants, among others. This friendly introduction to Toeplitz theory covers the classical spectral theory of Toeplitz forms and Wiener–Hopf integral operators and their manifestations throughout modern functional analysis. Numerous solved exercises illustrate the results of the main text and introduce subsidiary topics, including recent developments. Each chapter ends with a survey of the present state of the theory, making this a valuable work for the beginning graduate student and established researcher alike. With biographies of the principal creators of the theory and historical context also woven into the text, this book is a complete source on Toeplitz theory.

The Method of Second Quantization
The Method of Second Quantization

Author: F.A. Berazin

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2012-12-02

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0323159400

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The Method of Second Quantization deals with the method of second quantization and its use to solve problems of quantum mechanics involving an indefinite number of particles, mainly in field theory and quantum statistics. Topics covered include operations on generating functionals; linear canonical transformations; quadratic operators; and Thirring's four-fermion model. State spaces and the simplest operators are also described. This book is comprised of four chapters and begins with an overview of the method of second quantization and the relevant notations. The first chapter focuses on the connections between vectors and functionals and between operators and functionals, together with fundamental rules for operating on functionals. The reader is then introduced to the so-called quadratic operators and the linear canonical transformations closely connected with them. Quadratic operators reduced and not reduced to normal form are considered. The final chapter discusses the Thirring model, the simplest relativistically invariant model in quantum field theory, and explains why it includes infinities. This monograph will be of value to students and practitioners of mathematical physics.

The Supersymmetric World
The Supersymmetric World

Author: G. L. Kane

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 9810245394

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The story of the discovery of supersymmetry is a fascinating one, unlike that of any other major development in the history of science. This engaging book presents a view of the process, mainly in the words of people who participated. It combines anecdotal descriptions and personal reminiscences with more technical accounts of the trailblazers, covering the birth of the theory and its first years ? the origin of the idea, four-dimensional field theory realization, and supergravity. The eyewitnesses convey to us the drama of one of the deepest discoveries in theoretical physics in the 20th century. This book will be equally interesting and useful to young researchers in high energy physics and to mature scholars ? physicists and historians of science.

Physics In A Mad World
Physics In A Mad World

Author: Misha Shifman

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2015-08-28

Total Pages: 555

ISBN-13: 9814619310

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This book tells captivating stories of misadventures of two renowned theoretical physicists in the Soviet Union. The first part is devoted to Friedrich (Fritz) Houtermans, an outstanding Dutch-Austrian-German physicist who was the first to suggest that the source of stars' energy is thermonuclear fusion, and also made a number of other important contributions to cosmochemistry and geochemistry. In 1935, Houtermans, a German communist, in an attempt to save his life from Hilter's Gestapo, fled to the Soviet Union. He took up an appointment at the Kharkov Physico-Technical Institute, working there for two years with the Russian physicist Valentin P Fomin. In the Great Purge of 1937, Houtermans was arrested in December by the NKVD (Soviet Secret Police, KGB's predecessor). He was tortured, and confessed to being a Trotskyist plotter and German spy, out of fear of threats against his wife Charlotte. However, Charlotte had already escaped from the Soviet Union to Denmark, after which she went to England and finally the USA. As a result of the Hilter-Stalin Pact of 1939, Houtermans was turned over to the Gestapo in May 1940 and imprisoned in Berlin.The second part consists of two essays that narrate the life story of Yuri Golfand, one of the codiscoverers of supersymmetry, a major discovery in theoretical physics in the 20th century. In 1973, just two years after the publication of his seminal paper, he was fired from the Lebedev Physics Institute in Moscow. Because of his Jewish origin he could find no job. Under such circumstances, he applied for an exit visa to Israel, but his application was denied. Yuri Golfand became a refusnik and joined the Human rights movement, along with two other prominent physicists, Andrei Sakharov and Yuri Orlov. To earn his living, he had to do manual work, repeatedly being intimidated by KGB. Only 18 years later, shortly before the demise of the Soviet Union, did he obtain permission to leave the country, emigrating to Israel in 1990.These personal life stories of two outstanding theorists are interwined with the tragedies of the 20th century and make for compelling reading.

Quantum Physics of Light and Matter
Quantum Physics of Light and Matter

Author: Luca Salasnich

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-05-13

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 3319051792

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The book gives an introduction to the field quantization (second quantization) of light and matter with applications to atomic physics. The first chapter briefly reviews the origins of special relativity and quantum mechanics and the basic notions of quantum information theory and quantum statistical mechanics. The second chapter is devoted to the second quantization of the electromagnetic field, while the third chapter shows the consequences of the light field quantization in the description of electromagnetic transitions. In the fourth chapter it is analyzed the spin of the electron, and in particular its derivation from the Dirac equation, while the fifth chapter investigates the effects of external electric and magnetic fields on the atomic spectra (Stark and Zeeman effects). The sixth chapter describes the properties of systems composed by many interacting identical particles by introducing the Hartree-Fock variational method, the density functional theory and the Born-Oppenheimer approximation. Finally, in the seventh chapter it is explained the second quantization of the non-relativistic matter field, i.e. the Schrodinger field, which gives a powerful tool for the investigation of many-body problems and also atomic quantum optics. At the end of each chapter there are several solved problems which can help the students to put into practice the things they learned.