Gauge field theories
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Gauge field theories
（Cambridge monographs on mathematical physics）
Cambridge University Press, c2000
2nd ed
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- : pbk
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Previous ed.: 1987
Includes bibliographical references (p. 599-604) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Quantum field theory forms the present theoretical framework for our understanding of the fundamental interactions of particle physics. This up-dated and expanded text examines gauge theories and their symmetries with an emphasis on their physical and technical aspects. Beginning with a new chapter giving a systematic introduction to classical field theories and a short discussion of their canonical quantization and the discrete symmetries C, P and T, the book provides a brief exposition of perturbation theory, the renormalization programme, and the use of the renormalization group equation. It then explores topics of current research interest including chiral symmetry and its breaking, anomalies, and low energy effective lagrangians and some basics of supersymmetry. A chapter on basics of the electroweak theory is now included. Professor Pokorski, a distinguished theoretical physicist, has presented here a self-contained text for graduate courses in physics; the only prerequisite is some grounding in quantum field theory.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. Classical fields, symmetries and their breaking
- 2. Path integral formulation of quantum field theory
- 3. Feynman rules for Yang-Mills theories
- 4. Introduction to the theory of renormalization
- 5. Quantum electrodynamics
- 6. Renormalization group
- 7. Scale invariance and operator product expansion
- 8. Quantum chromodynamics
- 9. Chiral symmetry, spontaneous symmetry breaking
- 10. Spontaneous and explicit global symmetry breaking
- 11. Higgs mechanisms in gauge theories
- 12. Standard electroweak theory
- 13. Chiral anomalies
- 14. Effective lagrangians
- 15. Introduction to supersymmetry
- Appendices.
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