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The aim of Part I is to cover the prerequisites necessary for a pedagogical exposition of the new approach to non-equilibrium dynamics presented in Part II. In attempting to write down what is essentially a second quantization of statistical mechanics, we implicitly rely on central ideas from classical mechanics, thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, as well as quantum mechanics, quantum statistical mechanics and finally quantum field theory.
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R.P. Feynman, L.M. Brown, Feynman’s Thesis: A New Approach to Quantum Theory (World Scientific, Singapore, 1942)
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Millington, P. (2014). Introduction to Part I. In: Thermal Quantum Field Theory and Perturbative Non-Equilibrium Dynamics. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01186-8_2
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