Introduction To Relativistic Statistical Mechanics: Classical And Quantum

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Introduction To Relativistic Statistical Mechanics: Classical And Quantum is written by Remi Joel Hakim and published by World Scientific. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9814464120 (ISBN 10) and 9789814464123 (ISBN 13).

This is one of the very few books focusing on relativistic statistical mechanics, and is written by a leading expert in this special field. It started from the notion of relativistic kinetic theory, half a century ago, exploding into relativistic statistical mechanics. This will interest specialists of various fields, especially the (classical and quantum) plasma physics. However, quantum physics — to which a major part is devoted — will be of more interest since, not only it applies to quantum plasma physics, but also to nuclear matter and to strong magnetic field, cosmology, etc. Although the domain of gauge theory is not covered in this book, the topic is not completely forgotten, in particular in the domain of plasma physics. This book is particularly readable for graduate students and a fortiori to young researchers for whom it offers methods and also appropriate schemes to deal with the current problems encountered in astrophysics, in strong magnetic, in nuclear or even in high energy physics.