Selected Topics in Gauge Theories
Dittrich, Walter.
Selected Topics in Gauge Theories [electronic resource] / by Walter Dittrich, Martin Reuter. - V, 319 p. 1 illus. online resource. - Lecture Notes in Physics, 244 0075-8450 ; . - Lecture Notes in Physics, 244 .
Classical Yang-mills theory -- Path integral quantization of gauge theories -- Background field methods -- Instantons and ?-Vacua -- Schwinger model (QED)2 -- Chiral anomaly in (QCD)2 -- Fujikawa's path integral method -- Chiral anomaly in the Schwinger-Symanzik formalism -- Anomalous ward identities à la Wess-Zumino -- Topological aspects of the Wess-Zumino effective action -- Topological baryon number and the Skyrme model -- The Atiyah-Singer index theorem (for the Euclidean Dirac operator) -- Chiral anomalies and differential geometry -- Effective gauge theory actions in (2n + 1) dimensions -- Chiral anomaly with gravitational background field -- Vacuum charge in 2n + 1 dimensions.
9783540397465
10.1007/3-540-16064-7 doi
Quantum theory.
Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory.
Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics.
QC793-793.5 QC174.45-174.52
539.72
Selected Topics in Gauge Theories [electronic resource] / by Walter Dittrich, Martin Reuter. - V, 319 p. 1 illus. online resource. - Lecture Notes in Physics, 244 0075-8450 ; . - Lecture Notes in Physics, 244 .
Classical Yang-mills theory -- Path integral quantization of gauge theories -- Background field methods -- Instantons and ?-Vacua -- Schwinger model (QED)2 -- Chiral anomaly in (QCD)2 -- Fujikawa's path integral method -- Chiral anomaly in the Schwinger-Symanzik formalism -- Anomalous ward identities à la Wess-Zumino -- Topological aspects of the Wess-Zumino effective action -- Topological baryon number and the Skyrme model -- The Atiyah-Singer index theorem (for the Euclidean Dirac operator) -- Chiral anomalies and differential geometry -- Effective gauge theory actions in (2n + 1) dimensions -- Chiral anomaly with gravitational background field -- Vacuum charge in 2n + 1 dimensions.
9783540397465
10.1007/3-540-16064-7 doi
Quantum theory.
Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory.
Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics.
QC793-793.5 QC174.45-174.52
539.72