Ebook: Quantum mechanics in the geometry of space-time: Elementary theory
Author: Boudet Roger
- Genre: Physics // Quantum Physics
- Tags: Physics., Mathematical physics., Mathematical Methods in Physics., Quantum Field Theories String Theory., Classical and Quantum Gravitation Relativity Theory.
- Series: Springer Briefs in Physics
- Year: 2011
- Publisher: Springer
- City: Berlin, Heidelberg
- Language: English
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This book continues the fundamental work of Arnold Sommerfeld and David Hestenes formulating theoretical physics in terms of Minkowski space-time geometry. We see how the standard matrix version of the Dirac equation can be reformulated in terms of a real space-time algebra, thus revealing a geometric meaning for the number i in quantum mechanics. Next, it is examined in some detail how electroweak theory can be Read more...
Abstract: This book continues the fundamental work of Arnold Sommerfeld and David Hestenes formulating theoretical physics in terms of Minkowski space-time geometry. We see how the standard matrix version of the Dirac equation can be reformulated in terms of a real space-time algebra, thus revealing a geometric meaning for the number i in quantum mechanics. Next, it is examined in some detail how electroweak theory can be integrated into the Dirac theory and this way interpreted in terms of space-time geometry. Finally, some implications for quantum electrodynamics are considered.The presentation of real quantum electromagnetism is expressed in an addendum. The book covers both the use of the complex and the real languages and allows the reader acquainted with the first language to make a step by step translation to the second one