Published February 1982 | Version v1
Journal article

Introduction to the Lie-admissible treatment of non-potential interactions in Newtonian, statistical, and particle mechanics

  • 1. Inst. for Basic Research, Cambridge, MA

Description

Views on the experimental origin, theoretical formulation, and mathematical structure of nonpotential interactions in Newtonian, statistical, and particle mechanics are presented. The simplest but most dominant consideration of this introduction is the expectation that the charge distribution of hadrons is not perfectly rigid, but admits deformations under suitable impacts with other hadrons. These rather natural deformations then imply: (1) the breaking of the SU(2)-spin symmetry for the interior strong problem, with the understanding that conventional, conserved, total spin quantities are recovered in the exterior treatment; (2) the consequential necessary breaking of the T- and P-symmetries, also for the interior strong problem, owing to the explicit dependence of the discrete operators on spin, with the understanding that the center-of-mass trajectories of closed strong systems recover the T- and P-symmetries; and (3) the origin of irreversibility at the most elemental level of nature, via the nonpotential interactions originating from mutual penetrations and overlappings of hadrons under strong interactions

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Hadronic J.
Journal Volume
5
Journal Issue
2
Series
Hadronic J.
Journal Page Range
264-359
ISSN
0162-5519

Conference

Title
1. international conference on non-potential interactions and their Lie-admissible treatment.
Dates
5 - 9 Jan 1982.
Place
Orleans (France).

Optional Information

Secondary number(s)
CONF-820136--.