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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784767603321

Autore

Adler Stephen L

Titolo

Adventures in theoretical physics [[electronic resource] ] : selected papers with commentaries / / Stephen L. Adler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore ; ; Hackensack, NJ, : World Scientific, c2006

ISBN

1-281-91967-5

9786611919672

981-277-476-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (761 p.)

Collana

World Scientific series in 20th century physics ; ; v. 37

Disciplina

530.15

Soggetti

Mathematical physics

Physics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents               ; Preface              ; Commentaries                   ; 1. Early Years and Condensed Matter Physics                                                  ; References for Chapter 1                               ; 2. High Energy Neutrino Reactions PCAC Relations and Sum Rules                                                                     ; Introduction                   ; Forward Lepton Theorem                             ; Soft Pion Theorems                         ; Sum Rules                ; More Low Energy Theorems

Weak Pion Production Redux                                                           References for Chapter 2                               ; 3. Anomalies: Chiral Anomalies and Their Nonrenormalization Perturbative Corrections to Scaling and Trace Anomalies to All Orders                                                                                                                                        ; Chiral Anomalies and n0 -> yy Decay                                          ; Anomaly Nonrenormalization

Point Splitting Calculations of the Anomaly                                                  The Non-Abelian Anomaly Its Nonrenormalization and Geometric Interpretation                                                                                  ; Perturbative Corrections to Scaling                                          ; Trace Anomalies to All Orders                                    ; References for Chapter 3                               ; 4. Quantum Electrodynamics                                 ; Introduction

Strong Magnetic Field Electrodynamics: Photon Splitting and Vacuum



Dielectric Constant                                                                                             The ""Finite QED"" Program via the Callan-Symanzik Equations                                                                 ; Compactification of Massless QED and Applications                                                        ; References for Chapter 4                               ; 5. Particle Phenomenology and Neutral Currents

Introduction                   Visits to Fermilab                         ; Neutral Currents                       ; References for Chapter 5                               ; 6. Gravitation                     ; Introduction                   ; First Papers                   ; Einstein Gravity as a Symmetry Breaking Effect                                                     ; References for Chapter 6                               ; 7. Non-Abelian Monopoles Confinement Models and Chiral Symmetry Breaking

Introduction

Sommario/riassunto

During the period 1964-1972, Stephen L Adler wrote seminal papers on high energy neutrino processes, current algebras, soft pion theorems, sum rules, and perturbation theory anomalies that helped lay the foundations for our current standard model of elementary particle physics. These papers are reprinted here together with detailed historical commentaries describing how they evolved, their relation to other work in the field, and their connection to recent literature. Later important work by Dr Adler on a wide range of topics in fundamental theory, phenomenology, and numerical methods, and th