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The conceptual framework of quantum field theory /

0199573263

9780199573264

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The conceptual framework of quantum field theory /

[Book]

Anthony Duncan

1st ed

x, 782 pages :

illustrations ;

25 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

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

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Quantum field theory

Duncan, Anthony, (Professor of physics)

20121113154201.0

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[Book]

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