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020 _a9780198788409 (PB)
041 _aeng
080 _a530.145
_bBAU
100 _aBaulieu, Laurent
245 _aFrom Classical to Quantum Fields
260 _bOxford University Press
_c2017
_aOxford
300 _axvii, 931p
505 _aRelativistic invariance The electromagnetic field General relativity: a field theory of gravitation The physical states Relativistic wave equations Towards a relativistic quantum mechanics Functional integrals and probabilistic amplitudes Functional integrals and quantum mechanics: formal developments The Euclidean functional integrals Fermions and functional formalism Relativistic quantum fields Applications Geometry and quantum dynamics Broken symmetries Quantum field theory at higher orders A first glance at renormalisation and symmetry Renormalisation of Yang-Mills theory and BRST symmetry Some consequences of the renormalisation group Analyticity properties of Feynman diagrams Infrared singularities Coherent states and classical limit of quantum electrodynamics Quantum field theories with a large number of fields The existence of field theories beyond the perturbation expansion Fundamental interactions Beyond the standard model Supersymmetry, or the defense of scalars Tensor calculus Differential calculus Groups and lie algebras A collection of useful formulae Extract from Maxwell's A treatise on electricity and magnetism
520 _aQuantum Field Theory has become the universal language of most modern theoretical physics. This introductory textbook shows how this beautiful theory offers the correct mathematical framework to describe and understand the fundamental interactions of elementary particles.
650 _aQuantum field theory
650 _aClassical Quantum field theory Textbooks
690 _aPhysics
700 _aIliopoulos, John
700 _aSeneor, Roland
942 _cBK
999 _c59664
_d59664