Relativity, Groups, Particles: Special Relativity and Relativistic Symmetry in Field and Particle Physics [Paperback]

Roman U. Sexl (Author), Helmuth K. Urbantke (Author), H.K. Urbantke (Translator)

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Paperback: 388 pages
Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (Nov 10 2000)
Language: German
ISBN-10: 3211834435
ISBN-13: 978-3211834435
Product Dimensions: 24.4 x 16.6 x 1.7 cm
Shipping Weight: 816 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,047,503 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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"... I wish that many readers from the large English-speaking area ... will step on it and profit from an illuminating textbook which was reserved to German-language readers up to now." Wolfgang Hasse - General Relativity and Gravitation, vol. 34, 12/2002

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This textbook bridges the gap between the level of introductory courses on mechanics and electrodynamics and the level of application in high energy physics and quantum field theory. After explaining the postulates that lead to the Lorentz transformation and after going through the main points special relativity has to make in classical mechanics and electrodynamics, the authors gradually lead the reader up to a more abstract point of view on relativistic symmetry - illustrated by physical examples - until finally motivating and developing Wigner's classification of the unitary irreducible representations of the inhomogeneous Lorentz group. Numerous historical and mathematical asides contribute to the conceptual clarification.

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Traditionally, two postulates are put at the beginning of Special Relativity, from which all other results can be derived: A. The Principle of Relativity B. The constancy of the speed of light From these principles the Lorentz transformation may be derived in numerous ways, some more and some less elementary, as is done in most presentations of Relativity. Read the first page

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