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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction and overview
- 1 Trace dynamics: the classical Lagrangian and Hamiltonian dynamics of matrix models
- 2 Additional generic conserved quantities
- 3 Trace dynamics models with global supersymmetry
- 4 Statistical mechanics of matrix models
- 5 The emergence of quantum field dynamics
- 6 Brownian motion corrections to Schrödinger dynamics and the emergence of the probability interpretation
- 7 Discussion and outlook
- Appendices
- References
- Index
4 - Statistical mechanics of matrix models
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 March 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction and overview
- 1 Trace dynamics: the classical Lagrangian and Hamiltonian dynamics of matrix models
- 2 Additional generic conserved quantities
- 3 Trace dynamics models with global supersymmetry
- 4 Statistical mechanics of matrix models
- 5 The emergence of quantum field dynamics
- 6 Brownian motion corrections to Schrödinger dynamics and the emergence of the probability interpretation
- 7 Discussion and outlook
- Appendices
- References
- Index
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- Quantum Theory as an Emergent PhenomenonThe Statistical Mechanics of Matrix Models as the Precursor of Quantum Field Theory, pp. 75 - 116Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004