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Author:   Anthony Duncan (Professor of Physics, Department of Physics 1nd Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 18.80cm , Height: 4.50cm , Length: 25.00cm
Weight:   1.712kg
ISBN:  

9780199573264

ISBN 10:   0199573263
Pages:   794
Publication Date:   09 August 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part I: Origins 1: From the Arrow of Time to the First Quantum Field 2: Gestation and Birth of Interacting Field Theory- From Dirac to Shelter Island Part II: Dynamics 3: The Physical Ingredients of Quantum Field Theory - Dynamics, Symmetries, Scales 4: Quantum Mechanical Preliminaries 5: Relativistic Quantum Mechanics 6: Aspects of Locality - Clustering, Microcausality, and Analyticity 7: Construction of Local Covariant Fields 8: The Classical Limit of Quantum Fields 9: Interacting Fields- General Aspects 10: Interacting Fields- Perturbative Aspects 11: Interacting Fields - Nonperturbative Aspects Part III: Symmetries 12: Continuous Space-time Symmetry - Why we need Lagrangians in Field Theory 13: Discrete Space-time Symmetries 14: Global Symmetries in Field Theory 15: Local Symmetries in Field Theory Part IV: Scales 16: Scale Sensitivity of Field Theory Amplitudes and Effective Field Theories 17: Perturbatively Renormalizable Field Theories 18: Short-distance Structure of Quantum Field Theory 19: Long-distance Structure of Quantum Field Theory

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Thorough and rigorous development of the subject from a mathematically based perspective * Peter J. Bussey, Contemporary Physics *

Review from previous edition This is not your average quantum field theory book. Duncan provides a new perspecetive on the field, emphasising a number of conceptual and technical aspects that are usually brushed conveniently under the carpet. This should be high on the reading list of any serious researcher. David Tong, University of Cambridge

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Anthony Duncan is Professor of Physics at the University of Pittsburgh, USA.

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