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  title info:
    title: BRST Symmetry and de Rham Cohomology
  name:
    name part: Hong, Soon-Tae.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: X, 201 p. 2 illus. online resource.
  abstract: This book provides an advanced introduction to extended theories of quantum field theory and algebraic topology, including Hamiltonian quantization associated with some geometrical constraints, symplectic embedding and Hamilton-Jacobi quantization and Becci-Rouet-Stora-Tyutin (BRST) symmetry, as well as de Rham cohomology. It offers a critical overview of the research in this area and unifies the existing literature, employing a consistent notation. Although the results presented apply in principle to all alternative quantization schemes, special emphasis is placed on the BRST quantization for constrained physical systems and its corresponding de Rham cohomology group structure. These were studied by theoretical physicists from the early 1960s and appeared in attempts to quantize rigorously some physical theories such as solitons and other models subject to geometrical constraints. In particular, phenomenological soliton theories such as Skyrmion and chiral bag models have seen a revival following experimental data from the SAMPLE and HAPPEX Collaborations, and these are discussed. The book describes how these model predictions were shown to include rigorous treatments of geometrical constraints because these constraints affect the predictions themselves. The application of the BRST symmetry to the de Rham cohomology contributes to a deep understanding of Hilbert space of constrained physical theories. Aimed at graduate-level students in quantum field theory, the book will also serve as a useful reference for those working in the field. An extensive bibliography guides the reader towards the source literature on particular topics.
  table of contents: Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Hamiltonian quantization with constraints -- 3. BRST symmetry in constrained systems -- 4. Symplectic embedding and Hamilton-Jacobi quantization -- 5. Hamiltonian quantization and BRST symmetry of soliton models -- 6. Hamiltonian quantization and BRST symmetry of Skyrmion models -- 7. Hamiltonian structure of other models -- 8. Phenomenological soliton -- 9. De Rham cohomology in constrained physical system -- Appendix.
  note: by Soon-Tae Hong.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Mathematical physics
  subject:
    topic: Quantum field theory
  subject:
    topic: String theory
  subject:
    topic: Nuclear physics
  subject:
    topic: Heavy ions
  subject:
    topic: Hadrons
  subject:
    topic: Elementary particles (Physics)
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Quantum Field Theories, String Theory
  subject:
    topic: Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory
  subject:
    topic: Mathematical Physics
  subject:
    topic: Mathematical Methods in Physics
  subject:
    topic: Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons
  classification: QC174.45-174.52
  classification: 530.14
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      title: Springer eBooks
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