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Many courses on modern quantum field theory focus on the formulation and application of field theory, leaving topics related to symmetry underdeveloped. This leads to students often having an incomplete understanding of symmetries. Filling this gap, Symmetries and Symmetry Breaking in Field Theory sheds light on various aspects of symmetry in field theory. The book presents a broad selection of important topics, including constraint theory, generalized Pauli–Villars regularization, the measure approach to anomalies, zeta function regularization, and anomalous gauge theories. The author explains how some classical symmetries are broken by anomalies and how other symmetries of the theory are spontaneously broken. He discusses all of the ideas in as simple a way as possible.

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.."". a very interesting addition to the literature that will be useful both for the student beginning to work in the subject as well as for specialists in adjacent fields."" --Zentralblatt MATH 1301

.. . a very interesting addition to the literature that will be useful both for the student beginning to work in the subject as well as for specialists in adjacent fields. --Zentralblatt MATH 1301

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Mitra, Parthasarathi

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