Tirapegui E. (Ed.) Field Theory, Quantization and Statistical Physics: In Memory of Bernard Jouvet

D. Reidel Publishing Company, USA, 1981(2013). — 332 p. — (Mathematical Physics and Applied Mathematics. Volume 6) — ISBN: 9400983700It is with great emotion that we present here this volume dedicated to the memory of Bernard Jouvet, Docteur es Sciences, Directeur des Recher ches at the Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique. The life and the career as a physicist of Professor Jouvet are evoked in the following pages by Professor F. Cerulus, a friend of long standing of Professor Jouvet. The contributions have been written by physicists who were friends, collaborators or former students of Professor Jouvet. I express here my gratitude for their contributions. I wish also to thank Mrs. France Jouvet for her kind help in the realiza tion of this book. Without her support this would have been impossible. I am also especially indebted to Professor M. Flato for his constant encouragement and kind cooperation, and to F. Langouche and D. Roekaerts for their generous help in the preparation of this volume.Field Theory and Quantization
Renormalizable Theories with Symmetry Breaking
Computing Methods in Quantum Electrodynamics
Classical Mechanics of Autocomposite Particles
Exclusion of Static Solutions in Gravity-Matter Coupling
Star-Products: Quantization and Representations without Operators
High Energy Tests of Quantum Electrodynamics
Non-Ideal Effects on the Stability of a Cylindrical Current-Carrying Plasma
Broken Symmetry of Lie Groups of Transformation Generating General Relativistic Theories of Gravitation
Ward-Takahashi Identities and Gauge Invariance
Towards the Early Stages of the Universe
Covariant Quantizations of the Maxwell Field
Gauss’ Law in Local Quantum Field Theory
Discrete States Buried in the Continuum
Statistical Physics
Some Universal Aspects of the Transition to Stochasticity for Non-Conservative Dynamical Systems
High-Temperature Study of Planar Rotator- and XY-Models for Dimensions D=2
General Langevin Equations and Functional Integration