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- English
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About This Book
A fully updated edition of the classic text by acclaimed physicist A. Zee Since it was first published, Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell has quickly established itself as the most accessible and comprehensive introduction to this profound and deeply fascinating area of theoretical physics. Now in this fully revised and expanded edition, A. Zee covers the latest advances while providing a solid conceptual foundation for students to build on, making this the most up-to-date and modern textbook on quantum field theory available.This expanded edition features several additional chapters, as well as an entirely new section describing recent developments in quantum field theory such as gravitational waves, the helicity spinor formalism, on-shell gluon scattering, recursion relations for amplitudes with complex momenta, and the hidden connection between Yang-Mills theory and Einstein gravity. Zee also provides added exercises, explanations, and examples, as well as detailed appendices, solutions to selected exercises, and suggestions for further reading.
- The most accessible and comprehensive introductory textbook available
- Features a fully revised, updated, and expanded text
- Covers the latest exciting advances in the field
- Includes new exercises
- Offers a one-of-a-kind resource for students and researchers
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface to the First Edition
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Convention, Notation, and Units
- Part I: Motivation and Foundation
- Part II: Dirac and the Spinor
- Part III: Renormalization and Gauge Invariance
- Part IV: Symmetry and Symmetry Breaking
- Part V: Field Theory and Collective Phenomena
- Part VI: Field Theory and Condensed Matter
- Part VII: Grand Unification
- Part VIII: Gravity and Beyond
- Closing Words
- Part N
- More Closing Words
- Appendix A: Gaussian Integration and the Central Identity of Quantum Field Theory
- Appendix B: A Brief Review of Group Theory
- Appendix C: Feynman Rules
- Appendix D: Various Identities and Feynman Integrals
- Appendix E: Dotted and Undotted Indices and the Majorana Spinor
- Solutions to Selected Exercises
- Further Reading
- Index