Jackiw R. Diverse Topics in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics

World Scientific, 1995. — 514 p.In this volume, topics are drawn from field theory, especially gauge field theory, as applied to particle, condensed matter and gravitational physics, and concern a variety of interesting subjects. These include geometrical and topological effects in quantum theory, fractional charge, time travel, relativistic quantized fields in and out of thermal equilibrium and quantum modifications of symmetry in physical systems.
Many readers will find this a useful volume, especially theoretical physicists and mathematicians. The material will be of interest to both the expert who will find well-presented novel and stimulating viewpoints of various subjects and the novice who will find complete, detailed and precise descriptions of important topics of current interest, in theoretical and mathematical physics.Anomalies and Fractional Charge
Non-Canonical Behavior in Canonical Theories // Lecture at the Trieste Conference on Renormalization Theory, Trieste, Italy, August 1969; CERN Report TH-1065.
Quantum Mechanical Symmetry Breaking // Recent Developments in Quantum Field Theory, J. Ambjorn, B. Durhus and J. Petersen, eds. (North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1985).
Delta Function Potentials in Two- and Three-Dimensional Quantum Mechanics // M. A. B. Beg Memorial Volume, A. Ali and P. Hoodbhoy, eds. (World Scientific, Singapore, 1991).
Update on Anomalous Theories // Quantum Mechanics of Fundamental Systems I, C. Teitelbom, ed. (Plenum, New York, NY, 1988).
Fermion Fractionization // Quantum Structure of Space and Time, M. Duff and C. Isham, eds. (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 1982).
The Chiral Anomaly // Europhysics News 22, 76 (1991).
Gauge Theories and Gravity
Yang-Mills Vacuum as a Bloch Wave // Lecture at the Spring Meeting, American Physical Society Washington DC, April 1977.
Bifurcation and Stability in Yang-Mills Theory with Sources // Lecture Notes in Physics 129, 59 (Springer, Berlin 1980).
Topological Structures in the Standard Model at High T // Fubini Fest, Torino, Italy, February 1994.
Planar Gravity // Relativity and Gravitation: Classical and Quantum, J. D'Olivio, E. Nahmad-Achar, M. Rosenbaum, M. Ryan, L. Urrutia. and F. Zertuche, eds. (World Scientific, Singapore, 1991).
Time Travel? // Comments Nucl. Part. Phys. 20, 337 (1992).
Gauge Theories for Gravity on a Line // Teor. Mat. Fiz. 92, 404 (1992) [English Translation: Theor. Math. Phys. 92, 979 (1992)].
Symmetry Behavior
Introducing Scale Symmetry // Phys. Today 25, No. 1 (January) 23 (1972).
Hidden Symmetry of Magnetic Point Monopole and Vortex // High Energy Physics - 1980, L. Durand and L. Pondrom, eds. (American Institute of Physics, New York, NY, 1981).
Invariance, Symmetry and Periodicity in Gauge Theories // Acta Phys. Austr. Suppl. XXII, 383 (1980).
Symmetry Restoration at Finite Temperature // Springer Lecture Notes in Physics 39, 319 (1975).
Mean Field Theory for Non-Equilibrium Quantum Fields // Physica A158, 269 (1989).
Approaches to Quantum Theories Following Dirac
Canonical Light-Cone Commutators and Their Applications // Springer Tracts in Modern Physics 62, 1 (1972).
Invariant Quantization, Scale Symmetry and Euclidean Field Theory // Laws of Hadronic Matter, A. Zichichi ed. (Academic Press, New York, NY, 1975).
(Constrained) Quantization Without Tears // Constraint Theory and Quantization Methods, F. Colomo, L. Lusanna and G. Maimo, eds. (World Scientific, Singapore, 1994).
Analysis on Infinite-Dimensional Manifolds — Schrödinger Representation for Quantized Fields // Field Theory and Particle Physics, O. Eboli, M. Gomes and A. Santoro, eds. (World Scientific, Singapore, 1990).
Solitons, Instantons and Semi-Classical Quantum Field Theory
Non-Perturbative and Topological Methods in Quantum Field Theory // Shelter Island II, R. Jackiw, N. Khuri, S. Weinberg and E. Witten, eds. (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1985).
Self-Dual Chern-Simons Solitions // Progr. of Theor. Phys. (Kyoto), Suppl. 107, 1 (1992); Recent Developments in Field Theory, J. E. Kim, ed. (Min Eum Sa, Seoul, 1992).