Symmetries and symmetry breaking in field theory / P. Mitra, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Calcutta, India.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mitra, Parthasarathi, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Symmetry (Physics).

Broken symmetry (Physics).

Quantum field theory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 100 p.) : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton : CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, [2014]

Summary:

Many courses on modern quantum field theory focus on the formulation and application of field theory, leaving topics related to symmetry underdeveloped. This leads to students often having an incomplete understanding of symmetries. Filling this gap, Symmetries and Symmetry Breaking in Field Theory sheds light on various aspects of symmetry in field theory. The book presents a broad selection of important topics, including constraint theory, generalized Pauli-Villars regularization, the measure approach to anomalies, zeta function regularization, and anomalous gauge theories. The author explains how some classical symmetries are broken by anomalies and how other symmetries of the theory are spontaneously broken. He discusses all of the ideas in as simple a way as possible.

Contents:

Chapter 1 - Introduction; Chapter 2 - Elements of classical field theory; Chapter 3 - Global symmetries; Chapter 4 - Local symmetry and constraint theory; Chapter 5 - Functional integral formulation of field theory; Chapter 6 - Nonabelian gauge symmetry; Chapter 7 - Discrete symmetries; Chapter 8 - Spontaneous symmetry breaking; Chapter 9 - Breaking of chiral symmetry on quantization: the anomaly.

Notes:

A Chapman and Hall book.

ISBN:

9781040189382

1040189385

9780429072628

0429072627

9781466581043

1466581042

OCLC:

880825261