The Schwinger action principle and effective action / (Record no. 517814)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780511585913 (ebook) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| Cancelled/invalid ISBN | 9780521876766 (hardback) |
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| Cancelled/invalid ISBN | 9781107406308 (paperback) |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | UkCbUP |
| Language of cataloging | eng |
| Description conventions | rda |
| Transcribing agency | UkCbUP |
| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | QC174.17.S32 |
| Item number | T66 2007 |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 530.12 |
| Edition number | 22 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Toms, David J., |
| Dates associated with a name | 1953- |
| Relator term | author. |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The Schwinger action principle and effective action / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | David J. Toms. |
| 246 3# - VARYING FORM OF TITLE | |
| Title proper/short title | The Schwinger Action Principle & Effective Action |
| 264 #1 - Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice (R) | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture (R) | Cambridge : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer (R) | Cambridge University Press, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2007. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource (xi, 495 pages) : |
| Other physical details | digital, PDF file(s). |
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| Content type term (R) | text |
| Content type code (R) | txt |
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| Media type term (R) | computer |
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| Carrier type term (R) | online resource |
| Carrier type code (R) | cr |
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| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| სერიის ცნობა | Cambridge monographs on mathematical physics |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | 1. Action principle in classical mechanics -- 2. Action principle in classical field theory -- 3. Action principle in quantum theory -- 4. The effective action -- 5. Quantum statistical mechanics -- 6. Effective action at finite temperature -- 7. Further applications of the Schwinger action principle -- 8. General definition of the effective action -- App. 1. Mathematical appendices -- App. 2. Review of special relativity -- App. 3. Interaction picture. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | This book, first published in 2007, is an introduction to the Schwinger action principle in quantum mechanics and quantum field theory, with applications to a variety of different models including Bose-Einstein condensation, the Casimir effect and trapped Fermi gases. The book begins with a brief review of the action principle in classical mechanics and classical field theory. It then moves on to quantum field theory, focusing on the effective action method. This is introduced as simply as possible by using the zero-point energy of the simple harmonic oscillator as the starting point. The book concludes with a more complete definition of the effective action, and demonstrates how the provisional definition used earlier is the first term in the systematic loop expansion. The renormalization of interacting scalar field theory is presented to two-loop order. This book will interest graduate students and researchers in theoretical physics who are familiar with quantum mechanics. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Schwinger action principle. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Quantum theory. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Mathematical physics. |
| 776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY | |
| Display text | Print version: |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780521876766 |
| 830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE | |
| Uniform title | Cambridge monographs on mathematical physics. |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511585913">https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511585913</a> |
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