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Methods of Quantization: Lectures Held at the 39. Universitätswochen für Kern-und Teilchenphysik, Schladming, Austria

By Bernard L.G. Bakker (auth.) , H. Latal , W. Schweiger (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year
2001
ISBN
3540421009, 9783540421009
DOI
10.1007/3-540-45114-5
ISSN
0075-8450
Open Library ID
OL18729864M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
996 kB (1019902 bytes)
Series
Lecture Notes in Physics 572
Edition
1
Pages
228\221
Topic
Physics
Library
Kolxo3
DPI
300
Scanned
yes
Time added
2009-07-20 03:45:11
Mathematical Methods in Physics; Elementary ParticQuantum Field Theory

Description

Most of our present understanding of the elementary building blocks of matter and the forces between them is based on the quantized version of the field theories which are locally symmetric under gauge transformations. The present set of lecture notes gives both a status report and a survey of recent advances for the most important quantization methods in the field theories for elementary particle physics. The first part of the book introduces light-cone quantization as an interesting alternative to the commonly used covariant perturbation theory and functional-integral methods. Next, a general formalism for quantizing systems with constraints, the projection-operator approach, is presented and structural aspects of the renormalization problem for gauge invariant field theories are discussed. Finally, the mathematics underlying the functional-integral quantization is reviewed. Suitable as a reference for researchers in the field, the book will prove particularly useful for lecturers and graduate students in search of additional reading beyond the standard texts on quantum field theory.

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