Ticciati's approach to quantum field theory falls between building a mathematical model of the subject and presenting the mathematics that physicists actually use. It begins with the need to combine special relativity and quantum mechanics and culminates in a basic understanding of the standard model of electroweak and strong interactions. The book is divided into five parts: canonical quantization of scalar fields, Weyl, Dirac and vector fields, functional integral quantization, the standard model of the electroweak and strong interactions, renormalization. This should be a useful reference for those interested in quantum theory and related areas of function theory, functional analysis, differential geometry or topological invariant theory.
Author(s): Robin Ticciati
Series: Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications 72
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 1999
Language: English
Pages: 716
1. Relativistic quantum mechanics; 2. Fock space, the scalar field and canonical quantization; 3. Symmetries, conserved currents and conserved quantities; 4. The scattering matrix and Feynmann diagrams; 5. Differential transition probabilities and predictions; 6. Representations of the Lorentz group; 7. Two-component scalar fields; 8. Four-component scalar fields; 9. Massive vector fields; 10. Reformulating scattering theory; 11. Functional integral quantization; 12. Quantization of gauge theories; 13. Anomalies of gauge theories; 14. SU(3) representation theory; 15. The structure of the standard model; 16. Hadrons, flavor symmetry and nucleon-pion interactions; 17. Tree-level applications of the standard model; 18. Regularization and renormalization; 19. Renormalization of QED; 20. Renormalization and preservation of symmetries; 21. The renormalization group equations.
