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Non-Perturbative Field Theory: From Two Dimensional Conformal Field Theory to QCD in Four Dimensions

By Yitzhak Frishman , Jacob Sonnenschein

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2010
ISBN
0521662656, 9780521662659
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3242507 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics
Edition
1
Pages
456\456
Time added
2013-11-20 14:26:13
Физика;Квантовая физика;Физика элементарных частиц

Description

Providing a new perspective on quantum field theory, this book gives a pedagogical and up-to-date exposition of non-perturbative methods in relativistic quantum field theory and introduces the reader to modern research work in theoretical physics. It describes in detail non-perturbative methods in quantum field theory, and explores two- dimensional and four- dimensional gauge dynamics using those methods. The book concludes with a summary emphasizing the interplay between two- and four- dimensional gauge theories. Aimed at graduate students and researchers, this book covers topics from two-dimensional conformal symmetry, affine Lie algebras, solitons, integrable models, bosonization, and 't Hooft model, to four-dimensional conformal invariance, integrability, large N expansion, Skyrme model, monopoles and instantons. Applications, first to simple field theories and gauge dynamics in two dimensions, and then to gauge theories in four dimensions and quantum chromodynamics (QCD) in particular, are thoroughly described.

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