| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 271 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and (pages 262-267) and indexes. |
| Contents |
Quantum theory of free scalar fields -- Interacting field theory -- Particles of spin 1, and gauge invariance -- Spin-1/2 particles and Fermi statistics -- Massive quantum electrodynamics -- Symmetries, Ward identities, and Nambu-Goldstone bosons -- Non-abelian gauge theory -- Renormalization and effective field theory -- Instantons and solitons. |
| Summary |
Covering Feynman diagrams and path integrals, the author emphasizes the path integral approach, the Wilsonian approach to renormalization and the physics of non-abelian gauge theory. The book also treats quark confinement and chiral symmetry breaking. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Quantum field theory.
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Quantum field theory. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Banks, Tom, 1949- Modern quantum field theory. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008 9780521850827 (DLC) 2008027150 (OCoLC)232605696 |
| ISBN |
9780511650062 (electronic book) |
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051165006X (electronic book) |
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0511428995 (electronic book) |
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9780511428999 (electronic book) |
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9780511811500 (electronic book) |
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0511811500 (electronic book) |
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9780521850827 |
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0521850827 |
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