Conceptual Foundations of Quantum Field TheoryTian Yu Cao Quantum field theory is a powerful language for the description of the subatomic constituents of the physical world and the laws and principles that govern them. This book contains up-to-date in-depth analyses, by a group of eminent physicists and philosophers of science, of our present understanding of its conceptual foundations, of the reasons why this understanding has to be revised so that the theory can go further, and of possible directions in which revisions may be promising and productive. These analyses will be of interest to graduate students and research workers in physics who want to know about the foundational problems of their subject. The book will also be of interest to professional philosophers, historians and sociologists of science, because it contains much material for metaphysical and methodological reflections, for historical and cultural analyses, and for sociological analyses of the way in which various factors contribute to the way the foundations are revised. |
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... geometry 187 ABHAY ASHTEKAR and JERZY LEWANDOWSKI 14 ' Localization ' in quantum field theory : how much of QFT is compatible with what we know about space - time ? 207 CARLO ROVELLI 15 Comments 233 VI JOHN STACHEL 16 What is quantum ...
... geometry 187 ABHAY ASHTEKAR and JERZY LEWANDOWSKI 14 ' Localization ' in quantum field theory : how much of QFT is compatible with what we know about space - time ? 207 CARLO ROVELLI 15 Comments 233 VI JOHN STACHEL 16 What is quantum ...
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... ) , SIDNEY COLEMAN , SHELDON LEE GLASHOW , DAVID GROSS , STEVEN WEINBERG , ARTHUR WIGHTMAN Name index Subject index 343 357 368 387 391 Contributors Abhay Ashtekar Center for Gravitational Physics and Geometry , Contents vii.
... ) , SIDNEY COLEMAN , SHELDON LEE GLASHOW , DAVID GROSS , STEVEN WEINBERG , ARTHUR WIGHTMAN Name index Subject index 343 357 368 387 391 Contributors Abhay Ashtekar Center for Gravitational Physics and Geometry , Contents vii.
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Tian Yu Cao. Contributors Abhay Ashtekar Center for Gravitational Physics and Geometry , Department of Physics , Penn State University , University Park , PA 16802 , USA Laurie M. Brown Department of Physics and Astronomy , Northwestern ...
Tian Yu Cao. Contributors Abhay Ashtekar Center for Gravitational Physics and Geometry , Department of Physics , Penn State University , University Park , PA 16802 , USA Laurie M. Brown Department of Physics and Astronomy , Northwestern ...
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... geometry as a sub- stitute for quantum gravity . There is even an attempt to apply the quantum principles directly to the very definition of space - time , and then to use spectra of space - time operators to capture the quantum ...
... geometry as a sub- stitute for quantum gravity . There is even an attempt to apply the quantum principles directly to the very definition of space - time , and then to use spectra of space - time operators to capture the quantum ...
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... geometry . But it is not easy , in using some concepts of QFT ( such as symmetry and quantization ) to construct a new theory without a background geometry , not to carry over some package of concepts from QFT . These concepts may have ...
... geometry . But it is not easy , in using some concepts of QFT ( such as symmetry and quantization ) to construct a new theory without a background geometry , not to carry over some package of concepts from QFT . These concepts may have ...
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The Structural Foundations of Quantum Gravity Dean Rickles,Steven French,Juha T. Saatsi No preview available - 2006 |