Development of the Action Principle

Development of the Action Principle

A Didactic History from Euler-Lagrange to Schwinger

Dittrich, Walter

Springer Nature Switzerland AG

05/2021

135

Mole

Inglês

9783030691042

15 a 20 dias

454

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Short Historical Introduction.- Curva Elastica.- The Curva Elastica, a Curve of Least Energy.- From Euler to Lagrange.- Laplace and the Capillary - 1807.- A Final Application in Elasticity with Jacobi Elliptic Functions.- Short List of Jacobi Elliptic Functions and Constants Used in Chapter 5.- Variational Methods for Periodic Motions; Mathieu Functions.- Lagrangian for Isentropic Irrotational Flow.- Action Principle in Classical Electrodynamics.- The Two Giants in Gravity: Einstein and Hilbert.- The Quantum Action Principle.- The Action Principle in Quantum Field Theory.- Quantum Field Theory on Space-Like Hypersurfaces.- Lagrangian Formulation of Gauge Theories.- Effective Actions (Lagrangians) in Quantum Field Theory.- Modified Photon Propagation Function, Source Theory.
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Action principle;Curva elastica;Elliptic functions;Lagrangian in hydrodynamics;Quantum action principle;Gauge theories;Quantum field theory;Source theory vs. operator field theory;History of Physics