Providing a systematic introduction to the techniques which are fundamental to quantum field theory, this book pays special attention to the use of these techniques in
a wide variety of areas, including ordinary quantum mechanics, quantum mechanics in the second-quantized formulation, relativistic quantum field theory, Euclidean field theory, quantum statistics at finite temperature, and the classical statistics of nonideal gas and spin systems. The extended chapter on variational methods and functional Legendre transformations contains completely original material.
By:
A.N. Vasiliev (Moscow State University Russia) Translated by:
Patricia A. Millard Imprint: Taylor & Francis Ltd Country of Publication: United Kingdom Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Spine: 27mm
Weight: 660g ISBN:9789056990350 ISBN 10: 9056990357 Series:Frontiers in Physics Pages: 328 Publication Date:28 July 1998 Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Further / Higher Education
,
Undergraduate
Format:Hardback Publisher's Status: Active
1. The Basic Formalism of Field Theory 2. Specific Systems 3. The Massless Yang-Mills Field 4. Euclidean Field Theory 5. Statistical Physics 6. Variational Methods and Functional Legendre Transformations