Multivalued Fields in Condensed Matter, Electromagnetism, and Gravitation (Softcover)

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Continuation of the review by F.M.C. Witte from the back cover: "In 18 chapters Kleinert gives a thorough overview of the lightside of multivaluedness and its intriguingly vast range of physical applications. Whether in condensed matter physics, electromagnetism, or gravitation with or without torsion; just around very corner the appreciation of multivaluedness reveals fresh new insights into the structure of the theories describing such phenomena. What makes this book especially useful is that the four first chapters give a perceptive, condensed and yet highly readable account of the basic mathematical and physical tools of modern classical and quantum physics. The book breathes the same atmosphere of thoroughness as Kleinert's well-known book on path-integrals.Multivalued Fields is an extremely enjoyable and through-provoking read for the graduate student or active researcher in any part of physics. A definite eye-opener."

Chapters

1. Basics
2. Action Approach
3. Continuous Symmetries and Conservation Laws, Noether's Theorem
4. Multivalued Gauge Transformations in Magnetostatics
5. Multivalued Fields in Superfluids and Superconductors
6. Dynamics of Superfluids
7. Dynamics of Charged Superfluid and Superconductor
8. Relativistic Magnetic Monopoles and Electric Charge Confinement
9. Multivalued Mapping from Ideal Crystals to Crystals with Defects
10. Defect Melting
11. Relativistic Mechanics in Curvilinear Coordinates
12. Torsion and Curvature from Defects
13. Curvature and Torsion from Embedding
14. Multivalued Mapping Principle
15. Field Equations of Gravitation
16. Minimally Coupled Fields of Integer Spin
17. Particles with Half-Integer Spin
18. Covariant Conservation Law
19. Gravitation of Spinning Matter as a Gauge Theory
20. Evanescent Properties of Torsion in Gravity
21. Teleparallel Theory of Gravitation
22. Emerging Gravity