Quanta, Logic And Spacetime: Variations On Finkelstein's Quantum Relativity (eBook)

Selesnick Stephen A Selesnick (Autor)

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1998
284 Seiten
World Scientific Publishing Company (Verlag)
978-981-4496-97-1 (ISBN)

Infos

In this highly interesting monograph, a brief account of Finkelstein's approach to quantum theory and some of its ramifications is given. Specifically, his suggestion that some sort of quantum-set-like structure should underlie our macroscopic perception of spacetime is developed to the point where a fair slice of fundamental physics (for a massless world) may be formally derived in an elementary fashion from the ground up. In detail, a model of what Finkelstein has dubbed a "e;quantum net"e;, in conjunction with a carefully and extensively articulated correspondence principle, gives rise to the standard Lagrangians for: massless Dirac fermions, general relativity, and Yang-Mills fields for the gauge groups, U(1) x SU(2), and SU(3). These Lagrangians emerge replete with (Feynman) gauge-fixing terms and ghost fields, and a chiral breaking mechanism in the case of SU(2). The results are interpreted in the light of the Standard Model.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.3.1998
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Angewandte Mathematik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Quantenphysik
• ISBN-10: 981-4496-97-9 / 9814496979
• ISBN-13: 978-981-4496-97-1 / 9789814496971