SELECTED TOPICS ON THE GENERAL PROPERTIES OF QUANTUM FIELD THEORY: LECTURE NOTES (World Scientific Lecture Notes in Physics) - Hardcover

Strocchi, Franco

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9810211430 ISBN 13: 9789810211431

Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company, 1993

Synopsis

This book provides a readable account of the foundations of QFT, in particular of the Euclidean formulation with emphasis on the interplay between physical requirements and mathematical structures. The general structures underlying the conventional local (renormalizable) formulation of gauge QFT are discussed also on the basis of simple models. The mechanism of confinement, non-trivial topology and θ-vacua, chiral symmetry breaking and solution of the U(1) problem are clarified through a careful analysis of the Schwinger model, which settles unclear or debated points.

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This book provides a readable account of the foundations of QFT, in particular of the Euclidean formulation with emphasis on the interplay between physical requirements and mathematical structures. The general structures underlying the conventional local (renormalizable) formulation of gauge QFT are discussed also on the basis of simple models. The mechanism of confinement, non-trivial topology and -vacua, chiral symmetry breaking and solution of the U(1) problem are clarified through a careful analysis of the Schwinger model, which settles unclear or debated points.

Edition details

• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9810211430
• ISBN 13: 9789810211431
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 188