The Principle Of Least Action In Geometry And Dynamics
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| Author | : Karl Friedrich Siburg |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 135 |
| Release | : 2004-04-30 |
| Genre | : Mathematics |
| ISBN | : 3540409858 |
New variational methods by Aubry, Mather, and Mane, discovered in the last twenty years, gave deep insight into the dynamics of convex Lagrangian systems. This book shows how this Principle of Least Action appears in a variety of settings (billiards, length spectrum, Hofer geometry, modern symplectic geometry). Thus, topics from modern dynamical systems and modern symplectic geometry are linked in a new and sometimes surprising way. The central object is Mather’s minimal action functional. The level is for graduate students onwards, but also for researchers in any of the subjects touched in the book.
| Author | : Jacques Vanier |
| Publisher | : CRC Press |
| Total Pages | : 172 |
| Release | : 2019-01-15 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0429812191 |
CHOICE Recommended Title, June 2019 Brought together in one focused and exclusive treatment, this book provides an elementary introduction to the important role and use of the least action principle and the resulting Lagrange’s equations in the analysis of the laws that govern the universe. It is an ideal complimentary resource to accompany undergraduate courses and textbooks on classical mechanics. Features: Uses mathematics accessible to beginners Brings together the Principle of Least Action, Lagrange's equations, and variational principles in mechanics in one cohesive text Written in a clear and easy-to-understand manner
| Author | : Philip Edward Bertrand Jourdain |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 96 |
| Release | : 1913 |
| Genre | : Dynamics |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Alberto Rojo |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 269 |
| Release | : 2018-03-29 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1108298583 |
The principle of least action originates in the idea that, if nature has a purpose, it should follow a minimum or critical path. This simple principle, and its variants and generalizations, applies to optics, mechanics, electromagnetism, relativity, and quantum mechanics, and provides an essential guide to understanding the beauty of physics. This unique text provides an accessible introduction to the action principle across these various fields of physics, and examines its history and fundamental role in science. It includes - with varying levels of mathematical sophistication - explanations from historical sources, discussion of classic papers, and original worked examples. The result is a story that is understandable to those with a modest mathematical background, as well as to researchers and students in physics and the history of physics.
| Author | : Wolfgang Yourgrau |
| Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 222 |
| Release | : 1979-01-01 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9780486637730 |
Historical, theoretical survey with many insights, much hard-to-find material. Covers Hamilton's principle, Hamilton-Jacobi equation, relationship to quantum theory and wave mechanics, and more.
| Author | : David D. Nolte |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 384 |
| Release | : 2018-07-12 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0192528505 |
Galileo Unbound traces the journey that brought us from Galileo's law of free fall to today's geneticists measuring evolutionary drift, entangled quantum particles moving among many worlds, and our lives as trajectories traversing a health space with thousands of dimensions. Remarkably, common themes persist that predict the evolution of species as readily as the orbits of planets or the collapse of stars into black holes. This book tells the history of spaces of expanding dimension and increasing abstraction and how they continue today to give new insight into the physics of complex systems. Galileo published the first modern law of motion, the Law of Fall, that was ideal and simple, laying the foundation upon which Newton built the first theory of dynamics. Early in the twentieth century, geometry became the cause of motion rather than the result when Einstein envisioned the fabric of space-time warped by mass and energy, forcing light rays to bend past the Sun. Possibly more radical was Feynman's dilemma of quantum particles taking all paths at once — setting the stage for the modern fields of quantum field theory and quantum computing. Yet as concepts of motion have evolved, one thing has remained constant, the need to track ever more complex changes and to capture their essence, to find patterns in the chaos as we try to predict and control our world.
| Author | : Richard Phillips Feynman |
| Publisher | : World Scientific |
| Total Pages | : 142 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9812563660 |
Richard Feynman's never previously published doctoral thesis formed the heart of much of his brilliant and profound work in theoretical physics. Entitled ?The Principle of Least Action in Quantum Mechanics," its original motive was to quantize the classical action-at-a-distance electrodynamics. Because that theory adopted an overall space?time viewpoint, the classical Hamiltonian approach used in the conventional formulations of quantum theory could not be used, so Feynman turned to the Lagrangian function and the principle of least action as his points of departure.The result was the path integral approach, which satisfied ? and transcended ? its original motivation, and has enjoyed great success in renormalized quantum field theory, including the derivation of the ubiquitous Feynman diagrams for elementary particles. Path integrals have many other applications, including atomic, molecular, and nuclear scattering, statistical mechanics, quantum liquids and solids, Brownian motion, and noise theory. It also sheds new light on fundamental issues like the interpretation of quantum theory because of its new overall space?time viewpoint.The present volume includes Feynman's Princeton thesis, the related review article ?Space?Time Approach to Non-Relativistic Quantum Mechanics? [Reviews of Modern Physics 20 (1948), 367?387], Paul Dirac's seminal paper ?The Lagrangian in Quantum Mechanics'' [Physikalische Zeitschrift der Sowjetunion, Band 3, Heft 1 (1933)], and an introduction by Laurie M Brown.
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 368 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 3540776443 |
| Author | : Jim Pitman |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 257 |
| Release | : 2006-05-11 |
| Genre | : Mathematics |
| ISBN | : 354030990X |
The purpose of this text is to bring graduate students specializing in probability theory to current research topics at the interface of combinatorics and stochastic processes. There is particular focus on the theory of random combinatorial structures such as partitions, permutations, trees, forests, and mappings, and connections between the asymptotic theory of enumeration of such structures and the theory of stochastic processes like Brownian motion and Poisson processes.
| Author | : Jianjun Paul Tian |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 136 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Mathematics |
| ISBN | : 3540742832 |
Behind genetics and Markov chains, there is an intrinsic algebraic structure. It is defined as a type of new algebra: as evolution algebra. This concept lies between algebras and dynamical systems. Algebraically, evolution algebras are non-associative Banach algebras; dynamically, they represent discrete dynamical systems. Evolution algebras have many connections with other mathematical fields including graph theory, group theory, stochastic processes, dynamical systems, knot theory, 3-manifolds, and the study of the Ihara-Selberg zeta function. In this volume the foundation of evolution algebra theory and applications in non-Mendelian genetics and Markov chains is developed, with pointers to some further research topics.
