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  title info:
    title: Schwinger's Quantum Action Principle
    sub title: From Dirac’s Formulation Through Feynman’s Path Integrals, the Schwinger-Keldysh Method, Quantum Field Theory, to Source Theory
  name:
    name part: Milton, Kimball A.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: VIII, 116 p. 19 illus., 11 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: Starting from the earlier notions of stationary action principles, these tutorial notes shows how Schwinger’s Quantum Action Principle descended from Dirac’s formulation, which independently led Feynman to his path-integral formulation of quantum mechanics. Part I brings out in more detail the connection between the two formulations, and applications are discussed. Then, the Keldysh-Schwinger time-cycle method of extracting matrix elements is described. Part II will discuss the variational formulation of quantum electrodynamics and the development of source theory.
  table of contents: Historical introduction -- Review of classical action principles -- Classical field theory - electrodynamics -- Quantum Action Principle -- Time-cycle or Schwinger-keldysh Formulation -- Relativistic Theory of Fields -- Nonrelativistic Source theory -- Concluding remarks.
  note: by Kimball A. Milton.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Mathematical physics
  subject:
    topic: Quantum physics
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Quantum Physics
  subject:
    topic: History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
  subject:
    topic: Mathematical Applications in the Physical Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Mathematical Methods in Physics
  classification: QC173.96-174.52
  classification: 530.12
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      title: Springer eBooks
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      title: SpringerBriefs in Physics
  identifier: 9783319201283
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20128-3
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    record creation date: 150612
    record change date: 20151204154557.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-20128-3