From Classical to Quantum Fields

Author:   Laurent Baulieu (CNRS Research Director, CNRS Research Director, University of Paris) ,  John Iliopoulos (Director of Research Emeritus, Director of Research Emeritus, Ecole Normale Supérieure) ,  Roland Sénéor (Director of Research Emeritus, Director of Research Emeritus, CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique)
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Pages:   960
Publication Date:   02 February 2017
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Author:   Laurent Baulieu (CNRS Research Director, CNRS Research Director, University of Paris) ,  John Iliopoulos (Director of Research Emeritus, Director of Research Emeritus, Ecole Normale Supérieure) ,  Roland Sénéor (Director of Research Emeritus, Director of Research Emeritus, CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.50cm , Height: 5.00cm , Length: 25.00cm
Weight:   1.902kg
ISBN:  

9780198788393


ISBN 10:   0198788398
Pages:   960
Publication Date:   02 February 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

1: Introduction 2: Relativistic Invariance 3: The Electromagnetic Field 4: General Relativity: A Field Theory of Gravitation 5: The Physical States 6: Relativistic Wave Equations 7: Towards a Relativistic Quantum Mechanics 8: Functional Integrals and Probabilistic Amplitudes 9: Functional Integrals and Quantum Mechanics: Formal Developments 10: The Euclidean Functional Integrals 11: Fermions and Functional Formalism 12: Relativistic Quantum Fields 13: Applications 14: Geometry and Quantum Dynamics 15: Broken Symmetries 16: Quantum Field Theory at Higher Orders 17: A First Glance at Renormalisation and Symmetry 18: Renormalisation of Yang-Mills Theory and BRST Symmetry 19: Some Consequences of the Renormalisation Group 20: Analyticity Properties of Feynman Diagrams 21: Infrared Singularities 22: Coherent States and Classical Limit of Quantum Electrodynamics 23: Quantum Field Theories with a Large Number of Fields 24: The Existence of Field Theories beyond the Perturbation Expansion 25: Fundamental Interactions 26: Beyond the Standard Model 27: Supersymmetry, or the Defense of Scalars Appendix A: Tensor Calculus Appendix B: Differential Calculus Appendix C: Groups and Lie Algebras Appendix D: A Collection of Useful Formulae Appendix E: Extract from Maxwell's A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism

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This is a major contribution to the literature. Starting out with very elementary considerations, it proceeds to reach some of the frontiers in the field. From Classical to Quantum Fields is a fantastic resource to learn quantum field theory. It was a pleasure to read. Luis Alvarez-Gaume, Theoretical Physics Department, CERN, Switzerland This is a book on field theory, carefully written by the top experts in the field (no pun intended). It will be very useful for students studying this fundamental and complicated subject. A. Polyakov, Department of Physics, Princeton University


Everything is done in great detail, and the reader who stays with the discussion from beginning to end will obtain a fabulous education in modern physics, as well as a load of very solid ancillary mathematics. What a book! Michael Berg, Mathematical Association of America This is a book on field theory, carefully written by the top experts in the field (no pun intended). It will be very useful for students studying this fundamental and complicated subject. A. Polyakov, Department of Physics, Princeton University This is a major contribution to the literature. Starting out with very elementary considerations, it proceeds to reach some of the frontiers in the field. From Classical to Quantum Fields is a fantastic resource to learn quantum field theory. It was a pleasure to read. Luis Alvarez-Gaume, Theoretical Physics Department, CERN, Switzerland


...everything is done in great detail, and the reader who stays with the discussion from beginning to end will obtain a fabulous education in modern physics, as well as a load of very solid ancillary mathematics. What a book! Michael Berg, Mathematical Association of America


Author Information

Laurent Baulieu is currently CNRS Research Director at the University of Paris, where he has long been the head of the Theoretical Physics Department. His main field of research is Quantum Field Theory, the Theory of Elementary Particles and Symmetries. He has been an organizer of many summer schools and workshops on various aspects of Quantum Field Theory, especially in les Houches and in the Cargèse Institute in Corsica. John Iliopoulos is Director of Research Emeritus at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, where for many years he was the head of the Theoretical Physics Department. His research was centred around theoretical particle physics. In 1970, in collaboration with Sheldon Glashow and Luciano Maiani, he predicted the existence of the charm quark and proposed the GIM mechanism, an important step in the construction of the Standard Model. He has also contributed to the development of supersymmetry (with Bruno Zumino and Pierre Fayet). He has received many awards, such as the Ricard Prize of the French Physical Society, the Sakurai Prize of the American Physical Society, the High Energy Physics Prize of the European Physical Society and the Dirac Medal. Roland Sénéor is Director of Research Emeritus at the French CNRS. He spent most of his career at the Ecole Polytechnique, where he established and directed the Graduate School and was the Head of the Department for International Scientific Relations. His research centered on the mathematical foundations of QFT: the axiomatic formulation, the constructive approach, the summability of the perturbation expansion and the study of dynamic stochastic models. He has received various awards, including the Langevin Prize of the French Physical Society.

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