Overview
- Authored by a leading authority in the field
- Significantly revised and expanded third edition
- Useful as both an introduction and reference text
Part of the book series: Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (TMP)
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Table of contents (29 chapters)
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Front Matter
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SYMMETRY BREAKING INÂ CLASSICAL SYSTEMS
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
The third edition of the by now classic reference on rigorous analysis of symmetry breaking in both classical and quantum field theories adds new topics of relevance, in particular the effect of dynamical Coulomb delocalization, by which boundary conditions give rise to volume effects and to energy/mass gap in the Goldstone spectrum (plasmon spectrum, Anderson superconductivity, Higgs phenomenon). The book closes with a discussion of the physical meaning of global and local gauge symmetries and their breaking, with attention to the effect of gauge group topology in QCD.
From the reviews of the first edition:
It is remarkable to see how much material can actually be presented in a rigorous way (incidentally, many of the results presented are due to Strocchi himself), yet this is largely ignored, the original heuristic derivations being, as a rule, more popular. - At each step he strongly emphasizes the physical meaning and motivation of the variousnotions introduced [...] a book that fills a conspicuous gap in the literature, and does it rather well. It could also be a good basis for a graduate course in mathematical physics. J.-P. Antoine, Physicalia 28/2, 2006
Despite many accounts in popular textbooks and a widespread belief, the phenomenon is rather subtle, requires an infinite set of degrees of freedom and an advanced mathematical setting of the system under investigation. [...] The mathematically oriented graduate student will certainly benefit from this thorough, rigorous and detailed investigation. G. Roepstorff, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1075, 2006
From the reviews of the second edition:
This second edition of Strocchi’s Symmetry Breaking presents a complete, generalized and highly rigorous discussion of the subject, based on a formal analysis of conditions necessary for the mechanism of spontaneous symmetry breaking to occur in classical systems, as well as in quantum systems. […] This book is specifically recommended for mathematical physicists interested in a deeper and rigorous understanding of the subject, and it should be mandatory for researchers studying the mechanism of spontaneous symmetry breaking. S. Hajjawi, Mathematical Reviews, 2008
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Symmetry Breaking
Authors: Franco Strocchi
Series Title: Theoretical and Mathematical Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-62166-0
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-662-62164-6Published: 28 January 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-62166-0Published: 27 January 2021
Series ISSN: 1864-5879
Series E-ISSN: 1864-5887
Edition Number: 3
Number of Pages: XIII, 286
Additional Information: Originally published as volume 643 in the Springer series Lecture Notes in Physics
Topics: Mathematical Methods in Physics, Mathematical Physics, Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory, Mathematical Applications in the Physical Sciences, Quantum Field Theories, String Theory