theoretical physics, scalar field theory can refer to a relativistically invariant classical or quantum theory of scalar fields. A scalar field is invariant under...

spin-zero quantum fields, such as the Higgs field. These fields are the subject of scalar field theory. Mathematically, a scalar field on a region U is...

Lagrangian field theory is a formalism in classical field theory. It is the field-theoretic analogue of Lagrangian mechanics. Lagrangian mechanics is used...

field is a physical quantity, represented by a scalar, vector, or tensor, that has a value for each point in space and time. An example of a scalar field...

spin. Scalar bosons are the subset of bosons with zero-valued spin. The name scalar boson arises from quantum field theory, which demands that fields of...

In theoretical physics, a scalar–tensor theory is a field theory that includes both a scalar field and a tensor field to represent a certain interaction...

of a scalar–tensor theory, a gravitational theory in which the gravitational interaction is mediated by a scalar field as well as the tensor field of general...

Scalar theories of gravitation are field theories of gravitation in which the gravitational field is described using a scalar field, which is required...

Klein-Gordon: free scalar field theory φ4 theory Sine-Gordon Toda field theory Theories whose matter content consists only of spinor fields Dirac theory: free spinor...

Look up scalar in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Scalar may refer to: Scalar (mathematics), an element of a field, which is used to define a vector...

In physics, a unified field theory (UFT) is a type of field theory that allows all fundamental forces and elementary particles to be written in terms of...

scale-invariant classical field theory is the massless scalar field (note that the name scalar is unrelated to scale invariance). The scalar field, φ(x, t) is a function...

have the same dimensions of the field and the coupling of a massless quartic scalar field theory. So, these theories share the scale invariance at the...

University. In the 1940s, the classical theory was completed, and the full field equations including the scalar field were obtained by three independent research...

In the mathematical field of Riemannian geometry, the scalar curvature (or the Ricci scalar) is a measure of the curvature of a Riemannian manifold. To...

free theory and ϕ4 theory of the real scalar field. A similar process can be done for other types of fields, including the complex scalar field, the vector...

theory, the equations all contain tensors. Nordström's theories, on the other hand, are scalar theories because the gravitational field is a scalar....

spin-zero quantum fields (known as scalar bosons), such as the Higgs field. These fields are the subject of scalar field theory. A vector field is an assignment...

Scalar–tensor–vector gravity (STVG) is a modified theory of gravity developed by John Moffat, a researcher at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics...

A scalar is an element of a field which is used to define a vector space. In linear algebra, real numbers or generally elements of a field are called scalars...

relativistic theory it can accommodate gravitational lensing. The theory is based on the following ingredients: A unit vector field; A dynamical scalar field; A...

field theory in curved spacetime (QFTCS) is an extension of quantum field theory from Minkowski spacetime to a general curved spacetime. This theory uses...

based on different kinds of scalars: real numbers and complex numbers. Scalars can also be, more generally, elements of any field. Vector spaces generalize...

canonical quantization depend on the field being quantized, and whether it is free or interacting. A scalar field theory provides a good example of the canonical...

In physics, a gauge theory is a type of field theory in which the Lagrangian, and hence the dynamics of the system itself, does not change under local...

particularly in the classical theories of electromagnetism and fluid mechanics. Assume that f is a scalar, vector, or tensor field defined on a surface S. To...

In theoretical physics, scalar electrodynamics is a theory of a U(1) gauge field coupled to a charged spin 0 scalar field that takes the place of the...

un → φ(x), a scalar field, and ω ( k ) ∝ k a {\displaystyle \omega (k)\propto ka} . This amounts to classical free scalar field theory, an assembly of...

Rodal, José (May 2019). "A Machian wave effect in conformal, scalar--tensor gravitational theory". General Relativity and Gravitation. 51 (5): 64. Bibcode:2019GReGr...

excitation of the Higgs field, one of the fields in particle physics theory. In the Standard Model, the Higgs particle is a massive scalar boson with zero spin...