Publication:3941729

Publication date: 1981

Fourier transforms; quantum mechanics; Dirac equation; phase jumps; Lagrangian analysis; Planck's constant; magnetic field effects; amplitude singularities; Lagrangian differential operators; Maslov's procedure; metaplectic and symplectic groups; one-electron atoms in a magnetic field; Paschen-Back effect; Press. XIX, 271 p. Pounds 24.50 (1981)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

81Q05: Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics

81-02: Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to quantum theory

35C20: Asymptotic expansions of solutions to PDEs

42A38: Fourier and Fourier-Stieltjes transforms and other transforms of Fourier type

35Q99: Partial differential equations of mathematical physics and other areas of application

35A30: Geometric theory, characteristics, transformations in context of PDEs

35-02: Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to partial differential equations

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