| Record Type: |
Language materials, printed
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
Quantum field theory // Claude Itzykson, Jean-Bernard Zuber. |
| Author: |
Itzykson, Claude. |
| other author: |
Zuber, Jean Bernard. |
| Published: |
Mineola, N.Y. :Dover Publications, : 2005., |
| Description: |
xxxiv, 705 p. :ill. ;24 cm. |
| Notes: |
Originally published: New York : McGraw-Hill, 1980, in series: International series in pure and applied physics. With new pref. and list of errata. |
| Series: |
Dover books on physics |
| [NT 15003449]: |
1. Classical theory. Principle of least action ; Symmetries and conservation laws ; Propagation and radiation -- 2. The Dirac equation. Toward a relativistic wave equation ; Physical content ; Hydrogen-like atoms ; Hole theory and charge conjugation ; Dirac propagator -- 3. Quantization - free fields. Canonical quantization ; Quantized radiation field ; Dirac field and exclusion principle ; Discrete symmetries -- 4. Interaction with an external field. Quantized electromagnetic field interacting with a classical source ; Wick's theorem ; Quantized Dirac field interacting with a classical potential -- 5. Elementary processes. S matrix and asymptotic theory ; Applications ; Unitarity and causality -- 6. Perturbation theory. Interaction representation and Feynman rules ; Diagrammatics ; Analytic properties -- |
| [NT 15003449]: |
7. Radiative corrections. One-loop renormalization ; Radiative corrections to the interaction with an external field ; New effects -- 8. Renormalization. Regularization and power counting ; Renormalization ; Zero-mass limit, asymptotic behavior, and Weinberg's theorem ; The case of quantum electrodynamics -- 9. Functional methods. Path integrals ; Relativistic formulation ; Constrained systems ; Large orders in perturbation theory -- 10. Integral equations and bound-state problems. The Dyson-Schwinger equations ; Relativistic bound states ; Hyperfine splitting in positronium -- 11. Symmetries. Quantum implementation of symmetries ; Mass spectrum, multiplets, and Goldstone bosons ; Current algebra ; The [sigma] model ; Anomalies -- 12. Nonabelian gauge fields. Classical theory ; Quantization of gauge fields ; The effective action at the one-loop order ; Renormalization ; Massive gauge fields ; The Weinberg-Salam model -- 13. Asymptotic behavior. Effective charge in electrodynamics ; Broken scale invariance ; Scale invariance recovered ; Deep inelastic Lepton-Hadron scattering and electron-positron annihilation into Hadrons ; Operator product expansions -- Appendix. A-1. Metric ; A-2. Dirac matrices and spinors ; A-3. Normalization of states, S matrix, unitarity, and cross sections ; A-4. Feynman rules. |
| Subject: |
Quantum field theory. - |
| Online resource: |
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0625/2005053026-d.html |
| ISBN: |
0486445682 (pbk.) |