Quantum Field Theory A Modern Perspective /

• Main Author: Parameswaran Nair, V. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2005.
• Series: Graduate Texts in Contemporary Physics,
• Subjects: Physics.; Algebra.; Field theory (Physics).; Quantum physics.; Elementary particles (Physics).; Quantum field theory.; Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory.; Quantum Physics.; Mathematical Methods in Physics.; Field Theory and Polynomials.

Quantum field theory, which started with Paul Dirac’s work shortly after the discovery of quantum mechanics, has produced an impressive and important array of results. Quantum electrodynamics, with its extremely accurate and well-tested predictions, and the standard model of electroweak and chromody...

Table of Contents:

• Results in Relativistic Quantum Mechanics
• The Construction of Fields
• Canonical Quantization
• Commutators and Propagators
• Interactions and the S-matrix
• The Electromagnetic Field
• Examples of Scattering Processes
• Functional Integral Representations
• Renormalization
• Gauge Theories
• Symmetry
• Spontaneous symmetry breaking
• Anomalies I
• Elements of differential geometry
• Path Integrals
• The Configuration Space in Nonabelian Gauge Theory
• Anomalies II
• Finite temperature and density
• Gauge theory: Nonperturbative questions
• Elements of Geometric Quantization.