Pauli and the spin-statistics theorem /
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| Imprint: | Singapore ; River Edge, N.J. : World Scientific, 1997. |
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| Description: | x, 512 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3301712 |
Table of Contents:
- Pt. I. The Historic Era. Ch. 1. Discovery of the Exclusion Principle. Ch. 2. The Discovery of the Electron Spin- 1/2. Ch. 3. Bose-Einstein Statistics. Ch. 4. Wave Function of States of Many Identical Particles. Ch. 5. Fermi-Dirac Statistics. Ch. 6. Dirac's Invention of Quantum Field Theory. Ch. 7. The Jordan-Wigner Invention of Anticommutation for Fermi-Dirac Fields. Ch. 8. From Hole Theory to Positrons. Ch. 9. Canonical Quantization of the Klein-Gordon Field
- Pt. II. The Pauli Era. Ch. 10. Pauli's First Proof of the Spin-Statistics Theorem. Ch. 11. Fierz's Proof of the Spin-Statistics Theorem. Ch. 12. Belinfante's Proof of the Spin-Statistics Theorem. Ch. 13. deWet's Proof Based on Canonical Field Theory. Ch. 14. Pauli's Proof of the Spin-Statistics Theorem
- Pt. III. The Wightman-Schwinger Era. Ch. 15. Feynman's Proof and Pauli's Criticism. Ch. 16. Schwinger's Proof Using Time Reversal Invariance. Ch. 17. The Proofs of Luders and Zumino, and of Burgoyne. Ch. 18. The Hall-Wightman Theorem. Ch. 19. Schwinger, Euclidean Field Theory, Source Theory, and the Spin-Statistics Connection
- Pt. IV. The Contemporary Era. Ch. 20. Responses to Neuenschwander's Question. Evaluation of Intuitive Proofs of the Spin-Statistics Theorem. Ch. 21. Overview and Epilog.
