Causality Rules - A Light Treatise on Dispersion Relations and Sum Rules.

Vladimir Pascalutsa

ISBN 10: 1681749203 / ISBN 13: 9781681749204

Published by Morgan & Claypool Publishers, "IOP Concise Physics", San Raphael, CA, 2018

About this Item

A digital text: this copy printed in the UK. Quarto-size, paginated in sections (perhaps 96 pages), mathematical notation, charts, graphs, diagrams (some with spot colour); publisher's dark blue/grey laminated covers. Issued without jacket. As new, unread. Pictures show this actual book. UK orders are post-free.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Causality Rules - A Light Treatise on Dispersion Relations and Sum Rules.
• Publisher: Morgan & Claypool Publishers, "IOP Concise Physics", San Raphael, CA
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1681749203
• ISBN 13: 9781681749204
• Binding: Hardcover/Hardback
• Edition: First edition.
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Academic Books
  • Science, Engineering, Mathematics &c.

About this title

Synopsis

Scattering of light by light is a fundamental process arising at the quantum level through vacuum fluctuations. This short book will explain how, remarkably enough, this quantum process can entirely be described in terms classical quantities. This description is derived from general principles, such as causality, unitarity, Lorentz, and gauge symmetries. The reader will be introduced into a rigorous formulation of these fundamental concepts, as well as their physical interpretation and applications.

About the Author

Vladimir Pascalutsa is a tenured scientist at the Institute for Nuclear Physics of the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany. Prior to this, he studied and researched at the Kiev State University and Kernfysisch Versneller Instituut (KVI), before obtaining his PHD at the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Utrecht. He also held postdoctoral positions at NIKHEF (Amsterdam, the Netherlands), Flinders University (Adelaide, Australia), Ohio University (Athens OH, USA), College of William and Mary (Williamsburg VA, USA), and the ECT* (Trento, Italy).