The Landscape of Theoretical Physics: A Global View From Point Particles to the Brane World and Beyond in Search of a Unifying Principle

The Landscape of Theoretical Physics: A Global View From Point Particles to the Brane World and Beyond in Search of a Unifying Principle / by M. Pavsic.

Today many important directions of research are being pursued more or less independently of each other. These are, for instance, strings and mem branes, induced gravity, embedding of spacetime into a higher dimensional space, the brane world scenario, the quantum theory in curved spaces, Fock Schwin...

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Main Author: Pavsic, M. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2002.
Edition:1st ed. 2002.
Series:Fundamental Theories of Physics, 119
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Mathematical physics.
Elementary particles (Physics).
Quantum field theory.
Functional analysis.
Quantum physics.
Associative rings.
Rings (Algebra).
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
Table of Contents:
  • Point Particles
  • The Spinless Point Particle
  • Point Particles and Clifford Algebra
  • Harmonic Oscillator in Pseudo-Euclidean Space
  • Extended Objects
  • General Principles of Membrane Kinematics and Dynamics
  • More About Physics in M-Space
  • Extended Objects and Clifford Algebra
  • Quantization
  • Brane World
  • Spacetime as a Membrane in a Higher-Dimensional Space
  • The Einstein-Hilbert Action on the Brane as the Effective Action
  • On the Resolution of Time Problem in Quantum Gravity
  • Beyond the Horizon
  • The Landscape of Theoretical Physics: A Global View
  • Nobody Really Understands Quantum Mechanics
  • Final Discussion.

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