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Pedagogical exposition providing a new perspective on relativistic quantum field theory for graduate students and researchers.
List of contents
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.
About the author
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.
Summary
This book gives a pedagogical exposition of non-perturbative methods in relativistic quantum field theory and introduces the reader to modern research in theoretical physics. Aimed at graduate students and researchers, this 2010 title has been reissued as an Open Access publication on Cambridge Core.
