Research Catalog

Title

Photon and Poincaré group / Valeri V. Dvoeglazov, (editor).

Publication

Commack, N.Y. : Nova Science Publishers, [1999], ©1999.

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Additional Authors

Dvoeglazov, Valeri V.

Description

x, 434 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Contemporary fundamental physics

Uniform Title

Contemporary fundamental physics.

Subjects

• Poincaré series
• Group theory
• Photons

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Ch. I. Lorentz Group and Its Extensions. Lorentz covariance and internal space-time symmetry of relativistic extended particles / Y. S. Kim. Bargmann-Wigner spinors / M. Czachor. Massless Poincare representations / R.-K. Loide. Superalgebras of symmetry operators for Coulomb and Aharonov-Bohm-Coulomb systems / A. G. Nikitin -- Ch. II. C, P. and T. Spin or pin? / M. Berg and C. DeWitt-Morette et al. Electric dipole moments of elementary particles and irreducible representations of the Poincare group / J. Giesen. On the superselection sectors of fermions / A. Charnblin. Lorentz group and its spinor representation for spin 1/2 particles: SL(2, C), P, C, T and mirror particles / R. Erdem. "Minus C" symmetry in classical and quantum theories / G. Kotelnikov -- Ch. III. The Dirac Equation and Beyond. Relations between space-time inversion and particle-antiparticle symmetry and the microscopic essence of special relativity / Guang-jiong Ni and Su-qing Chen.
• Hyperbolic numbers and the Dirac spinor / F. Antonuccio. A review of some alternative descriptions of neutrinos / A. Raspini. Non-linear quantum dynamical equation for the self-acting electron / V. Oleinik -- Ch. IV. Antisymmetric Tensor Fields, Torsion and All That. Dynamical relativistic systems and the generalized gauge fields of manifestly covariant theories / L. P. Horwitz. Bivector gauge fields from classical electrodynamics / A. Krasulin. Topological electromagnetism: the variational formulation with sources / J. L. Trueba and A. F. Ranada. Topological evolution of classical electromagnetic fields and the photon / R. M. Kiehn. Field-antifield formalism in a non-Abelian theory with one and two form gauge fields coupled in a topological way / R. Amorim and J. Barcelos-Neto. Torsion: theory and possible observables / I. L. Shapiro. Some aspects of the Standard model in gravitational backgrounds with torsion / A. Dobado and A. L. Maroto --
• Ch. V. Relevant Mathematical and Phenomenological Topics. Derivation of local gauge freedom from a measurement principle / F. Finster. Some mathematical considerations about generalized Yang-Mills theories / M. Chaves. Confining solutions of SU(3) Yang-Mills theory / V. Dzhunushaliev and D. Singleton. Model for three generations of fermions / V. V. Kiselev. Poincare gauge theory, exact solutions and all that / S. Nakariki and T. Tashiro et al. Black holes with magnetic charge and quantized mass / A. Yu. Ignatiev, G. C. Joshi and K. C. Wali. Geometric foundation of spin and isospin / L. Hannibal. Gauge Invariancies in second class constrained systems: A comparative look at two methods / A. S. Vytheeswaran. Towards a physical interpretation of the wave function / S. Esposito.

ISBN

1560727187

OCLC

ocm43347017

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Columbia University Libraries