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Path Integral Approach to Quantum Physics

An Introduction

Authors:

  1. Gert Roepstorff

    1. Institut für Theoretische Physik, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen RWTH-Physikzentrum, Germany

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIII
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  2. Brownian Motion

    • Gert Roepstorff
    Pages 1-38

  3. The Feynman-Kac Formula

    • Gert Roepstorff
    Pages 39-108

  4. The Brownian Bridge

    • Gert Roepstorff
    Pages 109-149

  5. Fourier Decomposition

    • Gert Roepstorff
    Pages 150-169

  6. The Linear-Coupling Theory of Bosons

    • Gert Roepstorff
    Pages 170-191

  7. Magnetic Fields

    • Gert Roepstorff
    Pages 192-214

  8. Euclidean Field Theory

    • Gert Roepstorff
    Pages 215-241

  9. Field Theory on a Lattice

    • Gert Roepstorff
    Pages 242-280

  10. The Quantization of Gauge Theories

    • Gert Roepstorff
    Pages 281-315

  11. Fermions

    • Gert Roepstorff
    Pages 316-348

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 349-389
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About this book

This book has been written twice. After having written and published it in German in 1990, I started allover again and rewrote the whole story for an English speaking audience. During the first round I received encouraging words and critical remarks from students and colleagues alike which have helped to sustain me the second time around. In the preface the author usually states that his or her book resulted from a course that he or she gave at some university. I cannot claim that the present book is any exception to the rule. But I expanded and remodelled the original material which circulated as a manuscript so that the printed version would follow a more stringent and coherent architectural plan. In doing so I have concentrated on the conceptual problems inherent in the path integral formalism rather than on certain highly specialized techniques used in applications. Nevertheless, I have also included those methods that are of fundamental interest and have treated specific problems mainly to illustrate them.
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Institut für Theoretische Physik, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen RWTH-Physikzentrum, Germany

    Gert Roepstorff

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Path Integral Approach to Quantum Physics

  • Book Subtitle: An Introduction

  • Authors: Gert Roepstorff

  • Series Title: Theoretical and Mathematical Physics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-57886-1

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1994

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-61106-6Published: 20 June 1996

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-57886-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1864-5879

  • Series E-ISSN: 1864-5887

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 387

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour

  • Additional Information: Original German edition published by Vieweg, Braunschweig 1991

  • Topics: Mathematical Methods in Physics, Quantum Physics

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