Methods of Quantization - Lectures Held at the 39. Universitätswochen für Kern- und Teilchenphysik, Schladming, Austria

Most of our present understanding of the elementary building blocks of matter and the forces between them is based on the quantized version of the field theories which are locally symmetric under gauge transformations. The present set of lecture notes gives both a status report and a survey of recent advances for the most important quantization methods in the field theories for elementary particle physics. The first part of the book introduces light-cone quantization as an interesting alternative to the commonly used covariant perturbation theory and functional-integral methods. Next, a general formalism for quantizing systems with constraints, the projection-operator approach, is presented and structural aspects of the renormalization problem for gauge invariant field theories are discussed. Finally, the mathematics underlying the functional-integral quantization is reviewed. Suitable as a reference for researchers in the field, the book will prove particularly useful for lecturers and graduate students in search of additional reading beyond the standard texts on quantum field theory.

List of contents

Forms of Relativistic Dynamics.- Light-Cone Quantization: Foundations and Applications.- Quantization of Constrained Systems.- Algebraic Methods of Renormalization.- Functional Integrals for Quantum Theory.

About the author

Wolfgang Schweiger wurde 1951 in Traunstein geboren. Seit 1979 ist er als Autor und Journalist tätig. Er veröffentlichte Krimis und schrieb Drehbücher für TV-Serien.

Product details

• Assisted by: Heimo Latal (Editor), Wolfgang Schweiger (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.12.2011
• EAN: 9783540421009
• ISBN: 978-3-540-42100-9
• No. of pages: 228
• Weight: 470 g
• Illustrations: XI, 228 p. 8 illus.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics; Lecture Notes in Physics
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Theoretical physics; B, Teilchen- und Hochenergiephysik, Physics, Quantum physics (quantum mechanics & quantum field theory), Physics and Astronomy, Quantum field theory, Elementary particles (Physics), Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory, Mathematical Methods in Physics