T R Govindarajan & Giuseppe Marmo 
PARTICLES, FIELDS AND TOPOLOGY: CELEBRATING A P BALACHANDRAN [EPUB ebook] 
Celebrating A P Balachandran

A P Balachandran has a long and impressive record of research in particle physics and quantum field theory, bringing concepts of geometry, topology and operator algebras to the analysis of physical problems, particularly in particle physics and condensed matter physics. He has also had an influential role within the physics community, not only in terms of a large number of students, research associates and collaborators, but also serving on the editorial boards of important publications, including the International Journal of Modern Physics A.

This book consists of articles by students and associates of Balachandran. Most of the articles are scientific in nature, with topics ranging from noncommutative geometry, particle physics phenomenology, to condensed matter physics. Various chapters focus on new perspectives and directions resulting from Balachandran’s contributions to physics, as well as some reminiscences of collaborating and working with Balachandran.

Contents:

• My Life and Times (A P Balachandran)


• Energy Preserving Boundary Conditions for Scalar Fields (Manuel Asorey and Fernando Ezquerro)


• Our Trysts with ‘Bal’ and Noncommutative Geometry (Biswajit Chakraborty, Partha Nandi, Sayan Kumar Pal and Anwesha Chakraborty)


• Exceptional Fuzzy Spaces and Octonions (Denjoe O’Connor and Brian P Dolan)


• Understanding Quantum Physics: Why Geometry and Algebra Matter (Elisa Ercolessi)


• Near-Horizon Conformal Structure, Entropy and Decay Rate of Black Holes (Kumar S Gupta and Siddhartha Sen)


• A Proposal for the Groupoidal Description of Classical and Quantum Fields (A Ibort and G Marmo)


• Galaxies without Dark Matter (Giorgio Immirzi)


• Chaos in the Mass-Deformed ABJM Model (Seçkin Kürkçüoğlu)


• Quantum Groupoids and Gauge Transformations (Giovanni Landi)


• 316 (Fedele Lizzi)


• Eductions of Edge Mode Effects (V P Nair)


• Loop Braid Groups and Integrable Models (Pramod Padmanabhan and Abhishek Chowdhury)


• On Uhlmann’s Proof of the Monotonicity of the Relative Entropy (Juan Manuel Pérez-Pardo)


• Noncommutative Ad S₂ I: Exact Solutions (Aleksandr Pinzul and Allen Stern)


• The Mass Hyperboloid as a Poisson–Lie Group (S G Rajeev and Patrizia Vitale)


• TBM Mixing in Asymmetric Textures (Pierre Ramond)


• Entanglement Entropy in Quantum Mechanics: An Algebraic Approach (A F Reyes-Lega)


• From Virasoro Algebra to Cosmology (Vincent G J Rodgers)


• A New Approach to Classical Einstein–Yang–Mills Theory (Donald Salisbury)


• Renormalization Group and String Theory (Balachandran Sathiapalan and Homi Bhabha)


• An Inside View of the Tensor Product (Rafael D Sorkin)


• Noncommutative Ad S₂ II: The Correspondence Principle (Allen Stern and Aleksandr Pinzul)


• Quantum Probability as the Sum of Holonomies of the Canonical One-Form (C G Trahern)


• Noncommutative Geometry and Super-Chandrasekhar White Dwarf (T R Govindarajan, Surajit Kalita and Banibrata Mukhopadhyay)


• Chiral Anomaly in SU(N) Gauge Matrix Models and Light Hadron Masses (S Vaidya, N Acharyya and M Pandey)


• The QM/NCG Correspondence (Badis Ydri)

Readership: University libraries, research institutions, physicists, and graduate students in physics.

Key Features:

• The book will help to crystallize a clear perspective of Balachandran’s contributions and how they have influenced physics over the last fifty years or so


• The inclusion of new directions which emerged from his research will also highlight the continuing potential for future research


• The book will be of interest to physicists and graduate students from both research and history-of-physics points of view