Multivalued Fields : In Condensed Matter, Electromagnetism, and Gravitation

by Kleinert, Hagen

• ISBN13: 9789812791702
• ISBN10: 9812791701
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-02-04
• Publisher: Textstream

Summary

Hagen Kleinert is Professor of Physics at the Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany, and at ICRANet, Pescara (Italy) and Nice (France).

Table of Contents

Basics	p. 1
Action Approach	p. 48
Continuous Symmetries and Conservation Laws. Noether's Theorem	p. 71
Multivalued Gauge Transformations in Magnetostatics	p. 111
Multivalued Fields in Superfluids and Superconductors	p. 131
Dynamics of Superfluids	p. 196
Dynamics of Charged Superfluid and Superconductor	p. 210
Relativistic Magnetic Monopoles and Electric Charge Confinement	p. 251
Multivalued Mapping from Ideal Crystals to Crystals with Defects	p. 274
Defect Melting	p. 307
Relativistic Mechanics in Curvilinear Coordinates	p. 316
Torsion and Curvature from Defects	p. 342
Curvature and Torsion from Embedding	p. 374
Multivalued Mapping Principle	p. 380
Field Equations of Gravitation	p. 393
Minimally Coupled Fields of Integer Spin	p. 404
Particles with Half-Integer Spin	p. 410
Covariant Conservation Law	p. 432
Gravitation of Spinning Matter as a Gauge Theory	p. 444
Evanescent Properties of Torsion in Gravity	p. 448
Teleparallel Theory of Gravitation	p. 463
Emerging Gravity	p. 474
Index	p. 481
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