This book describes new applications for spatio-temporal chaotic dynamical systems in elementary particle physics and quantum field theories. The stochastic quantization approach of Parisi and Wu is extended to more general deterministic chaotic processes as generated by coupled map lattices. In particular, so-called chaotic strings are introduced as a suitable small-scale dynamics of vacuum fluctuations. This more general approach to second quantization reduces to the ordinary stochastic quantization scheme on large scales, but it also opens up interesting new perspectives: chaotic strings appear to minimize their vacuum energy for the observed numerical values of the free standard model parameters.
- ISBN10 9812778233
- ISBN13 9789812778239
- Publish Date December 2002 (first published 30 April 2002)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country SG
- Imprint World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
- Format eBook
- Pages 292
- Language English