This new edition of Prof. Strocchi's well received primer on rigorous aspectsof symmetry breaking presents a more detailed and thorough discussion of the mechanism of symmetry breaking in classical field theory in relation with the Noether theorem. Moreover, the link between symmetry breaking without masslessGoldstone bosons in Coulomb systems and in gauge theories is made more explicit in terms of the delocalized Coulomb dynamics. Furthermore, the chapter on the Higgs mechanism has been significantly expanded with a non-perturbative treatment of the Higgs phenomenon, at the basis of the standard model of particlephysics, in the local and in the Coulomb gauges. Last but not least, a subject index has been added and a number of misprints have been corrected. INDICE: Symmetry Breaking in Classical Systems.- Symmetry Breaking in Quantum Systems.
- ISBN: 978-3-540-73592-2
- Editorial: Springer
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 216
- Fecha Publicación: 01/02/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés