Gauge Invariance and Weyl-polymer Quantization

• Main Author: Strocchi, Franco (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 904
• Subjects: Physics.; Mathematical physics.; Quantum field theory.; String theory.; Quantum physics.; Elementary particles (Physics).; Quantum Physics.; Mathematical Physics.; Quantum Field Theories, String Theory.; Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory.

The book gives an introduction to Weyl non-regular quantization suitable for the description of physically interesting quantum systems, where the traditional Dirac-Heisenberg quantization is not applicable.  The latter implicitly assumes that the canonical variables describe observables, entailing n...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Heisenberg quantization and Weyl quantization
• Delocalization, gauge invariance and non-regular representations
• Quantum mechanical gauge models
• Non-regular representations in quantum field theory
• Diffeomorphism invariance and Weyl polymer quantization
• A generalization of Stone-von Neumann theorem.-  Bibliography
• Index.