Quantum Field Theory I Foundations and Abelian and Non-Abelian Gauge Theories /

• Main Author: Manoukian, Edouard B. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Series: Graduate Texts in Physics,
• Subjects: Physics.; Mathematical physics.; Quantum field theory.; String theory.; Quantum physics.; Elementary particles (Physics).; Quantum Field Theories, String Theory.; Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory.; Mathematical Physics.; Quantum Physics.

This textbook covers a broad spectrum of developments in QFT, emphasizing those aspects that are now well consolidated and for which satisfactory theoretical descriptions have been provided. The book is unique in that it offers a new approach to the subject and explores many topics merely touched up...

Table of Contents:

• Acknowledgements
• Preface to Volume I
• Notation and Data
• Introduction
• Preliminaries
• Quantum Field Theory Methods of Spin 1/2
• Fundamental Aspects of Quantum Field Theory
• Abelian Gauge Theories
• Non- Abelian Gauge Theories
• Appendix I: The Dirac Formalism
• Appendix II: Doing Intergals in Field Theory
• Appendix III: Analytic Continuation in Spacetime Dimension and Dimensional Regulation
• Appendix IV: Schwinger’s Point Splitting Method of Currents: Arbitrary Orders
• Appendix V: Renormalization and the Underlying Subtractions
• Solutions to the Problems
• Index.