World Scientific Series in 20th Century Physics - Vol. 13
BROKEN SYMMETRY
Selected Papers of Y Nambu
edited by T Eguchi (University of Tokyo, Japan) & K Nishijima (Chuo University, Japan)
This book contains selected papers of Prof Nambu who is one of the most original and outstanding particle theorists of our time. This volume consists of about 40 papers which made fundamental contributions to our understanding of particle physics during the last few decades.
The unpublished lecture note on string theory (1969) and the first paper on spontaneous symmetry breaking (1961) are retyped and included. The book also contains a memoir of Prof Nambu on his research career.
Contents:
- A Note on the Eigenvalue Problem in Crystal Statistics
- The Use of
the Proper Time in Quantum Electrodynamics I
- Possible Existence of a Heavy Neutral Meson
- Parametric Representations of General Green's Functions
- Dispersion Relations for Form Factors
- Axial Vector Current Conservation in Weak Interactions
- A 'Superconductor' Model of Elementary Particles and Its Consequences
- Dynamical Model of Elementary Particles Based on an Analogy with Superconductivity I (with G Jona-Lasinio)
- Chirality Conservation with Soft Pion Production (with D Lurié)
- Infinite Multiplets
- S-Matrix in Semiclassical Approximation
- Quark Model and the Factorization of Veneziano Amplitude
- Duality and Hadrodynamics
- Generalized Hamiltonian Dynamics
- Strings, Vortices and Gauge Fields
- BCS Mechanism, Quasi-Supersymmetry and the Fermion Masses
- and other papers
Readership: High energy physicists.
"The book benefits from the inclusion of previously unpublished material, informal lectures and conference-summary talks that are not widely available. These, together with the selected research papers, provide an excellent scientific biography of Nambu and of the Japanese physics tradition, which he describes in several places ... it is in the less formal presentations that the motivation for Nambu's ideas, as well as his charming modesty, become evident and make reading this collection the pleasure that it is."
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Pub. date: Nov 1995 |
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