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Symmetries and Symmetry Breaking in Field Theory

By Parthasarathi Mitra

Book information

Publisher
CRC Press
Year
2014
ISBN
978-1-4665-8105-0, 978-1-4665-8104-3
DOI
10.1201/b16890
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1900485 bytes)
Pages
112\113
Time added
2014-08-31 08:00:00
Физика;Квантовая физика;Физика элементарных частиц

Description

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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