Field Theory - A Modern Primer

Presents recent advances of perturbative relativistic field theory in a pedagogical and straightforward way. For graduate students who intend to specialize in high-energy physics.

List of contents

* How to Build an Action Functional * The Action Functional in Quantum Mechanics * The Feynman Path Integral in Field Theory * Purturbative Evaluation of the FPR: (to the power of 4) Theory * Path Integral Formulation with Fermions * Guage Symmetries: Yang-Mills and Gravity * Path Integral Formulation of Guage Theories * Perturbative Evaluation of Guage Theories

About the author

Pierre Ramond is the Director of the Institute for Fundamental Theory at the University of Florida. He is a Fellow of both the American Physical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Product details

• Authors: Pierre Ramond, Ramond Pierre
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9780367005047
• ISBN: 978-0-367-00504-7
• No. of pages: 344
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SCIENCE / Physics / Quantum Theory, Quantum physics (quantum mechanics & quantum field theory), Quantum physics (quantum mechanics and quantum field theory)