Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- PART I SCALAR FIELDS
- 1 Classical fields and symmetries
- 2 Canonical quantization
- 3 Path integrals, perturbation theory and Feynman rules
- 4 Scattering and cross sections for scalar fields
- PART II FIELDS WITH SPIN
- PART III RENORMALIZATION
- PART IV THE NATURE OF PERTURBATIVE CROSS SECTIONS
- APPENDICES
- References
- Index
1 - Classical fields and symmetries
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- PART I SCALAR FIELDS
- 1 Classical fields and symmetries
- 2 Canonical quantization
- 3 Path integrals, perturbation theory and Feynman rules
- 4 Scattering and cross sections for scalar fields
- PART II FIELDS WITH SPIN
- PART III RENORMALIZATION
- PART IV THE NATURE OF PERTURBATIVE CROSS SECTIONS
- APPENDICES
- References
- Index
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- Chapter
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- An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory , pp. 3 - 28Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1993