• Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Geometric Perturbative Theory in Physics

Geometric Perturbative Theory in Physics

Hardcover

Technology & EngineeringGeometry

ISBN10: 9971501368
ISBN13: 9789971501365
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Published: Oct 1 1986
Pages: 584
Weight: 2.70
Height: 1.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This book which focusses on mechanics, waves and statistics, describes recent developments in the application of differential geometry, particularly symplectic geometry, to the foundations of broad areas of physics. Throughout the book, intuitive descriptions and diagrams are used to elucidate the mathematical theory. It develops a coordinate-free framework for perturbation theory and uses this to show how underlying symplectic structures arise from physical asymptotes. It describes a remarkable parity between classical mechanics which arises asymptotically from quantum mechanics and classical thermodynamics which arises asymptotically from statistical mechanics. Included here is a section with one hundred unanswered questions for further research.

Also in

Geometry