Visionneuse

Date_TXT

Switzerland: Springer, 2021

Auteur

Franco Strocchi

Sujet

Chiral Symmetry Breaking; Gauge Symmetry Breaking; Goldstone Theorem and Boson; Infinitely Extended Quantum Systems; Noether Theorem; Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking

Type de document

Livre

Description :

The third edition of the by now classic reference on rigorous analysis of symmetry breaking in both classical and quantum field theories adds new topics of relevance, in particular the effect of dynamical Coulomb delocalization, by which boundary conditions give rise to volume effects and to energy/mass gap in the Goldstone spectrum (plasmon spectrum, Anderson superconductivity, Higgs phenomenon). The book closes with a discussion of the physical meaning of global and local gauge symmetries and their breaking, with attention to the effect of gauge group topology in QCD.