Quantum Field Theory

Quantum Field Theory
ISBN-10
0521478146
ISBN-13
9780521478144
Series
Quantum Field Theory
Category
Science
Pages
487
Language
English
Published
1996-06-06
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Author
Lewis H. Ryder

Description

This book is a modern introduction to the ideas and techniques of quantum field theory. After a brief overview of particle physics and a survey of relativistic wave equations and Lagrangian methods, the author develops the quantum theory of scalar and spinor fields, and then of gauge fields. The emphasis throughout is on functional methods, which have played a large part in modern field theory. The book concludes with a brief survey of "topological" objects in field theory and, new to this edition, a chapter devoted to supersymmetry. Graduate students in particle physics and high energy physics will benefit from this book.

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