The Stability of Matter: From Atoms to Stars - Selecta of Elliott H. Lieb (Hardcover, 4th ed. 2005)

This fourth edition of selecta of my work on the stability of matter contains recent work on two topics that continue to fascinate me: Quantum electrodynamics (QED) and the Bose gas. Three papers have been added to Part VII on QED. As I mentioned in the preface to the third edition, there must be a way to formulate a non-perturbative QED, presumably with an ultraviolet cutoff, that correctly describes low energy physics, i.e., ordinary matter and its interaction with the electromagnetic field. The new paper VII.5, which quantizes the results in V.9, shows that the elementary no-pair version of relativistic QED (using the Dirac operator) is unstable when many-body effects are taken into account. Stability can be restored, however, if the Dirac operator with the field, instead of the bare Dirac operator, is used to define an electron. Thus, the notion of a bare electron without its self-field is physically questionable."

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag
Country of origin:	Germany
Release date:	November 2004
First published:	2005
Editors:	Walter Thirring
Preface by:	F. Dyson
Authors:	Elliott H. Lieb
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 49mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	932
Edition:	4th ed. 2005
ISBN-13:	978-3-540-22212-5
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Calculus & mathematical analysis > Calculus of variations Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Calculus & mathematical analysis > Vector & tensor analysis Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Applied mathematics > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > States of matter > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > Quantum physics (quantum mechanics) > General Promotions
LSN:	3-540-22212-X
Barcode:	9783540222125

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