Techniques and applications of path integration (Record no. 155)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 978-0486445281
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Original cataloging agency ICTS-TIFR
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Personal name Schulman, L.S.
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Title Techniques and applications of path integration
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. New York:
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Dover Publications Inc.,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. c2005
300 ## - Physical Description
Pages: 448 p.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. A book of techniques and applications, this text defines the path integral and illustrates its uses by example. It is suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students in physics; its sole prerequisite is a first course in quantum mechanics. For applications requiring specialized knowledge, the author supplies background material.<br/>The first part of the book develops the techniques of path integration. Topics include probability amplitudes for paths and the correspondence limit for the path integral; vector potentials; the Ito integral and gauge transformations; free particle and quadratic Lagrangians; properties of Green's functions and the Feynman-Kac formula; functional derivatives and commutation relations; Brownian motion and the Wiener integral; and perturbation theory and Feynman diagrams.<br/>The second part, dealing with applications, covers asymptotic analysis and the calculus of variations; the WKB approximation and near caustics; the phase of the semiclassical amplitude; scattering theory; and geometrical optics. Additional topics include the polaron; path integrals for multiply connected spaces; quantum mechanics on curved spaces; relativistic propagators and black holes; applications to statistical mechanics; systems with random impurities; instantons and metastability; renormalization and scaling for critical phenomena; and the phase space path integral.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Quantum Field Theory
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Physics
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