Based on his own work, the author synthesizes the most promising approaches and ideals in field theory today. He presents such subjects as statistical mechanics, quantum field theory and their interrelation, continuous global symmetry, non-Abelian gauge fields, instantons and the quantam theory of loops, and quantum strings and random surfaces. This book is aimed at postgraduate students studying field theory and statistical mechanics, and for research workers in continuous global theory.
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This book manifests the author's unique perspective on physics. The author claims that the profound aspect of quantum gauge fields is that they can almost be regarded as the theory of strings. These strings are in essence the Faraday flux lines. The deeper understanding of quantum physics involving gauge fields demands the study of dynamics of quantum strings. Quantum strings turn out to produce the graviton thus can give a theory of quantum gravity. These are all pioneered by the author for past three decades and neatly explained in this book.
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conformal gauge, fermionic string, strong coupling expansion, chiral fields, bosonic case, spinor structures, world sheet, modular invariance, continuum limit, mass gap, operator product expansion, loop space, functional integral, phase transition point, vertex operator, loop approximation, strong coupling limit, gauge fields, abelian case, topological charge, norm states, gauge systems, general covariance New!
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- Particle Physics and Introduction to Field Theory (Contemporary Concepts in Physics, Vol. 1) by T.D. Lee in Front Matter
- Interacting Electrons and Quantum Magnetism (Graduate Texts in Contemporary Physics) by Assa Auerbach on page 151, page 158, and page 221
- Quantum Fields and Strings: A Course for Mathematicians (Volume 2) by Pierre Deligne on page 821, and page 517
- Statistical Mechanics of Membranes and Surfaces (Second Edition) by David Nelson on page 208, and page 243
- Confinement, Topology, and Other Non-Pertubative Aspects of QCD (NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry) by Jeff Paul Greensite on page 22, and page 90
- At the Frontier of Particle Physics: Handbook of QCD Vol. 4 by M. Shifman on page 73, and page 192
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