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Автор: Herbert Spohn
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
Год издания: 2004
isbn: 0521836972
Количество страниц: 378
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
Размер: 1,9 Мб
Каталожный номер: 55333
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Physical theories, while devised to model a particular range of phenomena, are evidently linked in a hierarchical fashion. It is this structure which keeps fascinating me. In statistical mechanics, my scientific home-town, the link between atomic and macroscopic properties is one central issue. There we are taught that the emergence of a more restricted theory from a more general one has a richer structure than merely letting some parameter tend to infinity. I understood at some point, by accident, that similar issues appear in the dynamics of classical charges coupled to the Maxwell field. Since I could not find a satisfactory discussion in the literature, I decided to write up my own account.
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