Relativity, Groups, Particles: Special Relativity and Relativistic Symmetry in Field and Particle Physics by Roman U. Sexl (PDF)

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This textbook bridges the gap between the level of introductory courses on mechanics and electrodynamics and the level of application in high energy physics and quantum field theory. After explaining the postulates that lead to the Lorentz transformation and after going through the main points special relativity has to make in classical mechanics and electrodynamics, the authors gradually lead the reader up to a more abstract point of view on relativistic symmetry – illustrated by physical examples – until finally motivating and developing Wigner’s classification of the unitary irreducible representations of the inhomogeneous Lorentz group. Numerous historical and mathematical asides contribute to the conceptual clarification.

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Editorial Reviews: Review “… I wish that many readers from the large English-speaking area … will step on it and profit from an illuminating textbook which was reserved to German-language readers up to now.” Wolfgang Hasse – General Relativity and Gravitation, vol. 34, 12/2002

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⭐I have downloaded the sample of kindle edition of the book to my iPAD and gone through it completely, with the intention of buying it in case I were satisfied. Unfortunately this edition is replete with disappeared indices or designators and other typos. Tough a carefull and patient reader can estimate and reconstruct the correct forms in most cases, it, obviously, diverts attention and creates annoyance. Having observed improvements in Kindle practice recently and acaquired books quite satisfactorily edited, this has been a disappointment for me.Naturaly, this review aims only to these defects of the edition, as a warning to the potential reader. Otherwise I have become quite optimistic and hopeful about the content of the book, by going through the beginning sections supplied in the sample. I have read many boks on special relativity and finally became very much interested in the derivations of Lorentz transformations that rely basically only on the relativity principle without using the constancy of the speed of light. I have, myself, studied and realized a derivation where, besides the relativity principle, only the reciprocal eaquality of the uniform speeds of two inertial frames as well as the the constancy of distances orthoganal to this velocity vector are assumed. This book appeared to me as a promise to remove also these later assumptions, however reasonable and obvious they might seem. As might be well known, in such derivations one establishes the existence of a constant speed as a universal constant, rather then assuming it as a postulate. That this universal constant happens to be the speed of light is the only physical content of the derivation and most of the SR, which otherwise is a totally mathematical-tautological as well as philosophical endeavour( Comparing with and, in some sense, justifying the physical philosophy of Heisenberg).On my part, having seen the a.m. potential, I am going to order the paper edition, only whereupon I shall have the chance of a decent review for the whole of the book.

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