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The conceptual framework of quantum field theory /
The book attempts to provide an introduction to quantum field theory emphasizing conceptual issues frequently neglected in more "utilitarian" treatments of the subject. The book is divided into four parts, entitled respectively "Origins", "Dynamics", "Symmetries&qu...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
©2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Origins I: from the arrow of time to the first quantum field
- Origins II: gestation and birth of interacting field theory: from Dirac to Shelter Island
- Dynamics I: the physical ingredients of quantum field theory: dynamics, symmetries, scales
- Dynamics II: quantum mechanical preliminaries
- Dynamics III: relavistic quantum mechanics
- Dynamics IV: aspects of locality: clustering, microcausality, and analyticity
- Dynamics V: construction of local covariant fields
- Dynamics VI: the classical limit of quantum fields
- Dynamics VII: interacting fields: general aspects
- Dynamics VIII: interacting fields: perturbative aspects
- Dynamics IX: interacting fields: non-perturbative aspects
- Dynamics IX: interacting fields: non-perturbative aspects
- Symmetries I: continuous spacetime symmetry: why we need Lagrangians in field theory
- Symmetries II: discrete spacetime symmetries
- Symmetries III: global symmetries in field theory
- Symmetries IV: local symmetries in field theory
- Scales I: scale sensitivity of field theory amplitudes and effective field theories
- Scales II: perturbatively renormalizable field theories
- Scales III: short-distance structure of quantum field theory
- Scales IV: long-distance structure of quantum field theory
- Appendix A: the functional calculus
- Appendix B: Rates and cross-sections
- Appendix C: Majorana spinor algebra.