Differential geometry, group representations, and quantization. Dedicated to Prof. Dr. Heinz-Dietrich Doebner on the occasion of his 60th birthday (Q1188947)

[The articles of this volume will not be indexed individually.] This book includes a set of contributions from some well-known scientists, regarding new developments in the application of group theoretic and differential geometric methods to classical and quantum physics: \textit{E. Binz}: Global differential geometric methods; \textit{J. J. Slawianowski}: Tetrads and generalized space-time dynamics; \textit{J. Sniatycki}: On boundary conditions for Yang-Mills in spatially bounded domains; \textit{A. Uhlmann}: Parallel transport of phases; \textit{G. C. Hegerfeldt}: An alternative approach to the quantization of linear relativistic field equations; \textit{J. Kijowski} and \textit{A. Thielmann}: A lattice approximation of the Dirac equation; \textit{L. O'Raifeartaigh}: Some hidden aspects of hidden symmetry; \textit{R. Raczka}: A baryon standard model for electroweak and strong interactions; \textit{I. E. Segal}: Is the physical vacuum really Lorentz-invariant?; \textit{S. T. Ali} and \textit{G. A. Goldin}: Quantization, coherent states and diffeomorphism groups; \textit{J. Tolar}: Borel quantization and the origin of topological effects in quantum mechanics; \textit{L. C. Biedenharn} and \textit{M. A. Lohe}: Symmetries of quantum group coupling coefficients; \textit{A. Bohm}: Symmetry groups and spectrum generating groups; \textit{V. K. Dobrev} and \textit{E. Sezgin}: Spectrum and character formulae of so(3,1) unitary representations; \textit{A. O. Barut}: Quantum theory of single events; \textit{Y. Ne'eman}: Symmetry, entropy and complexity; \textit{Th. Görnitz} and \textit{C. F. v. Weizsäcker}: Steps in the philosophy of quantum theory. Some contributions are written as general essays but the book contains also several lectures presenting new results. This new volume of Lecture Notes in Physics will be especially valuable to researchers interested in applications of differential geometric methods to physics.