: Heinrich Saller
: Operational Spacetime Interactions and Particles
: Springer-Verlag
: 9781441908988
: 1
: CHF 132.90
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: Theoretische Physik
: English
: 344
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The book provides readers with an understanding of the mutual conditioning of spacetime and interactions and matter. The spacetime manifold will be looked at to be a reservoir for the parametrization of operation Lie groups or subgroup classes of Lie groups. With basic operation groups or Lie algebras, all physical structures can be interpreted in terms of corresponding realizations or representations. Physical properties are related eigenvalues or invariants. As an explicit example of operational spacetime is proposed, called electroweak spacetime, parametrizing the classes of the internal hypercharge - isospin group in the general linear group in two complex dimensions, i.e., the Lorentz cover group, extended by the casual (dilation) and phase group. Its representations and invariants will be investigated with the aim to connect them, qualitatively and numerically, with the properties of interactions and particles as arising in the representations of its tangent Minkowski spaces.

Contents6
0 Introduction and Orientation12
1 Einstein's Gravity27
1.1 Geometrization of Gravity27
1.2 Schwarzschild--Kruskal Spacetime30
1.3 Friedmann and de Sitter Universes34
2 Riemannian Manifolds39
2.1 Differentiable Manifolds39
2.1.1 External Derivative42
2.2 Riemannian Operation Groups43
2.2.1 Metric-Induced Isomorphisms43
2.2.2 Tangent Euclidean and Poincaré Groups44
2.2.3 Global and Local Invariance Groups46
2.2.4 Riemannian Connection49
2.3 Affine Connections50
2.3.1 Torsion, Curvature, and Ricci Tensor51
2.3.2 Cartan's Stuctural Equations53
2.4 Lie Groups as Manifolds54
2.4.1 Lie Group Operations54
2.4.2 Lie Algebra Operations55
2.4.3 The Poincaré Group of a Lie Group56
2.4.4 Lie--Jacobi Isomorphisms for Lie Groups56
2.4.5 Examples57
2.4.6 Adjoint and Killing Connection of Lie Groups59
2.5 Riemannian Manifolds61
2.5.1 Lorentz Covariant Derivatives61
2.5.2 Laplace--Beltrami Operator62
2.5.3 Riemannian Curvature63
2.5.4 Einstein Tensor and Conserved Quantities64
2.6 Tangent and Operational Metrics65
2.6.1 Invariants66
2.7 Maximally Symmetric Manifolds67
2.7.1 Spheres and Hyperboloids68
2.7.2 Constant-Curvature Manifolds69
2.8 Rotation-Symmetric Manifolds70
2.9 Basic Riemannian Manifolds71
2.9.1 Manifolds with Dimension 172
2.9.2 Manifolds with Dimension 272
2.9.3 Manifolds with Dimension 374
2.9.4 Rotation-Invariant Four-Dimensional Spacetimes77
2.9.5 Robertson--Walker Metrics80
2.10 Covariantly Constant-Curvature Manifolds83
2.10.1 Orthogonal Symmetric Lie Algebras83
2.10.2 Real Simple Lie Algebras84
2.10.3 Globally Symmetric Riemannian Manifolds86
2.10.4 Curvature of Globally Symmetric RiemannianManifolds87
2.10.5 Examples89
3 Mass Points91
3.1 Nonrelativistic Classical Interactions92
3.2 The Symmetries of the Kepler Dynamics94
3.3 Electrodynamics for Charged Mass Points96
3.4 Einstein Gravity for Mass Points97
3.5 Geodesics of Static Spacetimes98
3.6 Gravity for Charged Mass Points101
4 Quantum Mechanics103
4.1 Nonrelativistic Wave Mechanics104
4.2 Harmonic Oscillator106
4.2.1 Position Representation107
4.2.2 Color SU(3) for 3-Position107
4.2.3 Harmonic Fermi Oscillator109
4.2.4 Bose and Fermi Oscillators109
4.3 Kepler Dynamics110
4.3.1 Position Representation111
4.3.2 Orthogonal Lenz--Runge Symmetry112
4.4 Particles and Ghosts115
4.4.1 Definite Metric, Fock Space, and Particles116
4.4.2 Indefinite Metric and Ghosts118
5 Quantum Fields of Flat Spacetime121
5.1 Electrodynamics of Fields123
5.2 Gravity of Fields125
5.3 Gravity and Electrodynamics127
5.4 Linearized Einstein Equations128
5.5 Free Particles for Flat Spacetime129
5.6 Massive Particles with Spin 1 and Spin 2133
5.7 Massless Polarized Photons and Gravitons136
5.8 Quantum Gauge Fields140
5.8.1 Fadeev--Popov Ghosts in Quantum Mechanics141
5.8.2 Fadeev--Popov Ghosts for Quantum Gauge Fields143
5.8.3 Particle Analysis of Massless Vector Fields144
5.9 Hilbert Representations of the Poincaré Group146
5.10 Normalizations and Coupling Constants148
5.11 Renormalization of Gauge Fields150
5.11.1 Perturbative Corrections of Normalizations151
5.11.2 Lie Algebra Renormalization by Vacuum Polarization154
6 External and Internal Operations156
6.1 Fiber Bundles157
6.1.1 Fibers and Base157
6.1.2 Structural and Gauge Groups158
6.2 Nonrelativistic and Relativistic Bundles159
6.3 Connections of Vector Space Bundles161
6.4 Pure Gauges, Distinguished Frames, and CompositeGauge Fields163
6.5 Chargelike Internal Connections165
6.5.1 Currents as Lie Algebra Densities 165
6.5.2 Normalizations of Gauge Fields167
6.5.3 Gauge Interactions in the Standard Model167<