Physical Applications of Homogeneous Balls
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Author(s): Y. Friedman
Publisher: Birkhäuser
ISBN: 0817633391
Format: hardback
277pp
Price: €82
Review Date: 06 December 2005
Review: This book introduces homogeneous balls as a new mathematical model for several areas of physics. Yaakov Friedman develops the theory of homogeneous balls and bounded symmetric domains and their structure informally, and also demonstrates how to construct an appropriate domain to model a given law of physics. After seeing the methodology applied to Special Relativity and Quantum Mechanics, readers should be able to extrapolate the techniques to their own area of interest. There are chapters on: relativity based on symmetry; the real spin domain; the complex spin factor and applications; the classical bounded symmetric domains; the algebraic structure of homogeneous balls; and the classification of JBW*-triple factors.