Nonperturbative quantum field theory and the structure of matter (Q5956194)

The book consists of 9 chapters: 1 The Theory of Light and Wave Mechanics; 2 The Spinor Field Model; 3 Covariant Quantum Field Dynamics; 4 Algebraic Schrödinger Representation; 5 Weak Mapping Theorems; 6 Generalized deBroglie-Bargmann-Wigner-Equations; 7 Effective \(\text{SU(2)}\times \text{U}(1)\) Gauge Theory; 8 Effective Electro-weak Theory; 9 Fermions and Gravitation. Introductions of chapters and sections are written for physicists who will find a lot of references. As to the mathematical point of view it is the reviewer's opinion that the job of theoretical physicists is the construction of mathematical models for physical processes. If this job is done by developping an own mathematical dialect and so keeping mathematicians out, this will not be good for progress. By letting mathematicians participate, the chance of finding more adequate models will become greater. Consequently books in theoretical physics should be written in the following way: after a short description of the process to be mathematically modelled the mathematical notions by means of which the process is described as well as the mathematical assumptions made for physical reasons should be named; then conclusions and discussion of adequacy of the model may follow. (There exists at least one example being very good in this sense: \textit{A. Derdzinski}, Geometry of the Standard Model of Elementary Particles (Springer 1992; Zbl 0796.53079).) In this book mathematical considerations often begin with an equation about the variables of which there is nothing said before; finding out the type of these variables is then left as a task to the reader. This wastes reader's time and makes reading to be no fun. Mathematical denotations and notions are a little outmoded. Essential progress made by new mathematical approaches could not be detected by the reviewer. Perhaps it would be a nice dissertation (submitted for a diploma) to give a new shape to the mathematical part.