TitleParticles and quantum fields
Author(s)Hagen Kleinert
PublicationNew Jersey, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd., 2016.
Descriptionxxxv, 1591p.
Abstract NoteThis is an introductory book on elementary particles and their interactions. It starts out with many-body Schrödinger theory and second quantization and leads, via its generalization, to relativistic fields of various spins and to gravity. The text begins with the best known quantum field theory so far, the quantum electrodynamics of photon and electrons (QED). It continues by developing the theory of strong interactions between the elementary constituents of matter (quarks). This is possible due to the property called asymptotic freedom. On the way one has to tackle the problem of removing various infinities by renormalization. The divergent sums of infinitely many diagrams are performed with the renormalization group or by variational perturbation theory (VPT). The latter is an outcome of the Feynman-Kleinert variational approach to path integrals discussed in two earlier books of the author, one representing a comprehensive treatise on path integrals, the other dealing with critial phenomena. Unlike ordinary perturbation theory, VPT produces uniformly convergent series which are valid from weak to strong couplings, where they describe critical phenomena.
ISBN,Price9789814740906 : US $60.00(PB)
Classification539.186.2
Keyword(s)1. COSMOLOGY 2. EBOOK 3. EBOOK - WORLD SCIENTIFIC 4. EINSTEIN GRAVITY 5. MANY-BODY QUANTUM PHYSICS 6. NOETHER'S THEOREM 7. NONABELIAN GAUGE THEORY 8. PERTURBATION THEORY 9. QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS 10. QUANTUM FIELD THEORY 11. RELATIVISTIC PARTICLES 12. RENORMALIZATION GROUP 13. WEAK INTERACTIONS
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