在經(jīng)典物理學(xué)中,引入場是為了構(gòu)建因果和局部的物理定律,《相對論量子場論:第2卷 路徑積分形式體系(英文)》以引入場為主要內(nèi)容,以《相對量子場論(第一卷)》介紹的內(nèi)容為基礎(chǔ),重新使用了現(xiàn)代路徑積分形式,重點(diǎn)關(guān)注量子電動(dòng)力學(xué)和色動(dòng)力學(xué)的應(yīng)用。全書分為8章,具體內(nèi)容包括量子力學(xué)的路徑積分公式、標(biāo)量場的路徑積分、費(fèi)米子場的路徑積分、阿貝爾規(guī)范場的路徑積分、群與李群、量子色動(dòng)力學(xué)的路徑積分公式、QCD的重正化、場論中的拓?fù)鋵ο、異常的有效拉格朗日量、手征性異常的攝動(dòng)理論等內(nèi)容。
Dr Michael Strickland is a professor of physics at Kent State University. His primary interest is the physics of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) and high temperature QFT. The QGP is predicted by QCD to have existed until approximately 10-s seconds after the Big Bang. The QGP is currently being studied terrestrially by experimentalists at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. Dr Michael Strickland has published research papers on various topics related to the QGP,QFT,relativistic hydrodynamics, and many other topics.In addition, he has co-written a classic text on the physics of neural networks.