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Relativite, groupes et topologie II: Les Houches, session XL, 27 juin-4 aout 1983 = Relativity, groups, and topology II

By R. Stora , Bryce S. DeWitt

Book information

Publisher
North-Holland
Year
1984
ISBN
9780444868589, 0444868585
LCC
QC173.6 .E26 1983
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
12 MB (12167960 bytes)
Series
Les Houches 40
Edition
lectures, 1983
Pages
1358\1358
Library
Kolxo3
DPI
300
Scanned
yes
Time added
2009-07-20 03:45:11

Description

The courses which comprise this book were designed to give the student a broad perspective on modern quantum field theory. Among the topics covered are: - an account of the quantum theory of the Yang-Mills field, anomalies, monopoles and o-vacua; - an exposition of background field and Green's function techniques applied to conservation laws, functional integration, curved backgrounds, nontrivial topologies and the effective action; - a description of supergravity and Kaluza-Klein theories; - supermanifolds, super Lie groups and super Hilbert spaces and theory of the topological and global aspects of quantum theory; - proofs of the positive energy theorems, and - accounts and analysis of episodes in the history of theoretical physics and quantum field theory.

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