Field Theory, Quantization and Statistical Physics, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1981 In Memory of Bernard Jouvet Mathematical Physics and Applied Mathematics Series, Vol. 6

One: Field Theory and Quantization.- Renormalizable Theories with Symmetry Breaking.- Computing Methods in Quantum Electrodynamics.- Classical Mechanics of Autocomposite Particles.- Exclusion of Static Solutions in Gravity-Matter Coupling.- Star-Products: Quantization and Representations without Operators.- High Energy Tests of Quantum Electrodynamics.- Non-Ideal Effects on the Stability of a Cylindrical Current-Carrying Plasma.- Broken Symmetry of Lie Groups of Transformation Generating General Relativistic Theories of Gravitation.- Ward-Takahashi Identities and Gauge Invariance.- Towards the Early Stages of the Universe.- Covariant Quantizations of the Maxwell Field.- Gauss’ Law in Local Quantum Field Theory.- Discrete States Buried in the Continuum.- Two: Statistical Physics.- Some Universal Aspects of the Transition to Stochasticity for Non-Conservative Dynamical Systems.- Hydrodynamic Models with Random Forces.- High-Temperature Study of Planar Rotator- and XY-Models for Dimensions D ? 2.- General Langevin Equations and Functional Integration.