Non-Perturbative Field Theory - From Two Dimensional Conformal Field Theory to Qcd in Four Dimensions

Informationen zum Autor YITZHAK FRISHMAN is a Professor Emeritus at the Weizmann Institute! Israel! where he has served as head of the Einstein Centre for Theoretical Physics and head of the Department of Particle Physics. JACOB SONNENSCHEIN is a Professor of Physics at Tel Aviv University! Israel! where he was head of the Particle Physics Department from 2003 to 2007. Klappentext Pedagogical exposition providing a new perspective on relativistic quantum field theory for graduate students and researchers. Zusammenfassung Providing a new perspective on quantum field theory! this book is useful for graduate students and researchers within and outside the field. It describes non-perturbative methods! and explores two-dimensional and four-dimensional gauge dynamics using those methods. Applications are thoroughly described. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Acknowledgements; Part I. Non-Perturbative Methods in Two Dimensional Field Theory: 1. From massless free scalar field to conformal field theories; 2. Conformal field theory; 3. Theories invariant under affine current algebras; 4. Wess-Zumino-Witten model and Coset models; 5. Solitons and two dimensional integrable models; 6. Bosonization; 7. The large N limit of two dimensional models; Part II. Two Dimensional Non-Perturbative Gauge Dynamics: 8. Gauge theories in two dimensions - basics; 9. Bosonized gauge theories; 10. The t'Hooft solution of 2d QCD; 11. Mesonic spectrum from current algebra; 12. DLCQ and the spectra of QC with fundamental and adjoint fermions; 13. The baryonic spectrum of multiflavour QCD2 in the strong coupling limit; 14. Confinement versus screening; 15. QCD2! Coset models and BRST quantization; 16. Generalized Yang Mills theory on Riemann surface; Part III. From Two to Four Dimensions: 17. Conformal invariance in four dimensional field theories and in QCD; 18. Integrability in four dimensional gauge dynamics; 19. Large N methods in QCD4; 20. From 2d bosonized baryons to 4d skyrmions; 21. From two dimensional solitons to four dimensional magnetic monopoles; 22. Instantons of QCD; 23. Summary! conclusions and outlook; References; Index. ...

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• Autoren: Yitzhak Frishman, Yitzhak (Weizmann Institute of Science Frishman, Yitzhak Sonnenschein Frishman, Jacob Sonnenschein, Jacob (Tel-Aviv University) Sonnenschein
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 08.04.2010
• EAN: 9780521662659
• ISBN: 978-0-521-66265-9
• Seiten: 456
• Serien: Cambridge Monographs on Mathem; Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics; Cambridge Monographs on Mathem
• Thema: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Physik, Astronomie > Allgemeines, Lexika