Instantons and Large N
Title | Instantons and Large N PDF eBook |
Author | Marcos Mariño |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 381 |
Release | 2015-09-03 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1107068525 |
A highly pedagogical textbook for graduate students, exploring advanced topics of quantum field theory with detailed derivations and worked examples.
Instantons and Large N
Title | Instantons and Large N PDF eBook |
Author | Marcos Mariño |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 381 |
Release | 2015-09-03 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1316368548 |
This highly pedagogical textbook for graduate students in particle, theoretical and mathematical physics, explores advanced topics of quantum field theory. Clearly divided into two parts; the first focuses on instantons with a detailed exposition of instantons in quantum mechanics, supersymmetric quantum mechanics, the large order behavior of perturbation theory, and Yang–Mills theories, before moving on to examine the large N expansion in quantum field theory. The organised presentation style, in addition to detailed mathematical derivations, worked examples and applications throughout, enables students to gain practical experience with the tools necessary to start research. The author includes recent developments on the large order behavior of perturbation theory and on large N instantons, and updates existing treatments of classic topics, to ensure that this is a practical and contemporary guide for students developing their understanding of the intricacies of quantum field theory.
Non-Perturbative Field Theory
Title | Non-Perturbative Field Theory PDF eBook |
Author | Yitzhak Frishman |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 455 |
Release | 2010-04-08 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1139486489 |
Providing a new perspective on quantum field theory, this book is useful for graduate students and researchers within and outside the field. It describes non-perturbative methods, and explores two-dimensional and four-dimensional gauge dynamics using those methods. Applications are thoroughly described.
From Quarks and Gluons to Quantum Gravity
Title | From Quarks and Gluons to Quantum Gravity PDF eBook |
Author | Antonino Zichichi |
Publisher | World Scientific |
Total Pages | 449 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9812796657 |
In August/September 2002, a group of 78 physicists from 50 laboratories in 17 countries met in Erice, Italy, to participate in the 40th Course of the International School of Subnuclear Physics. The purpose of the School was to focus attention on the theoretical and phenomenological developments in gauge theories, as well as in all the other sectors of subnuclear physics. Experimental highights from the most relevant sources of new data were presented and discussed, including the latest news on theoretical developments in quantizing the gravitational forces. This volume constitutes the proceedings of the School. It is dedicated to the memory of Victor Frederick Weisskopf, a founder OCo together with John Stewart Bell, Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett and Isidor Isaac Rabi OCo of the OC Ettore MajoranaOCO Centre for Scientific Culture, this School being the first of its 114 Schools now in existence. Contents: Mini-Courses on Basics: Physics of QCD Instantons (E V Shuryak); Confinement and Duality (M J Strassler); Status of Super String Theory (E Verlinde); Perturbative Quantum Gravity (G ''t Hooft); Experimental Highlights: Highlights from Gran Sasso Laboratory (A Bettini); Experimental Highlights from Super-Kamiokande (Y Totsuka); The Fermilab Experimental Physics Program (R Tschirhardt); Special Sessions for New Talents: Application of the Large- N c Limit to a Chiral Lagrangian with Resonances (O Cata); Towards the Finite Temperature Gluon Propagator in Landau Gauge YangOCoMills Theory (A Maas); Hermes Measurements of the Nucleon Spin Structure (J Wendland); and other papers. Readership: High energy, experimental and theoretical physicists."
Instantons In Gauge Theories
Title | Instantons In Gauge Theories PDF eBook |
Author | Misha Shifman |
Publisher | World Scientific |
Total Pages | 501 |
Release | 1994-07-15 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9814502316 |
This volume is a compilation of works which, taken together, give a complete and consistent presentation of instanton calculus in non-Abelian gauge theories, as it exists now. Some of the papers reproduced are instanton classics. Among other things, they show from a historical perspective how the instanton solution has been found, the motivation behind it and how the physical meaning of instantons has been revealed. Other papers are devoted to different aspects of instanton formalism including instantons in supersymmetric gauge theories. A few unsolved problems associated with instantons are described in great detail. The papers are organized into several sections that are linked both logically and historically, accompanied by extensive comments.
The Large N Expansion In Quantum Field Theory And Statistical Physics
Title | The Large N Expansion In Quantum Field Theory And Statistical Physics PDF eBook |
Author | Edouard Brezin |
Publisher | World Scientific |
Total Pages | 1149 |
Release | 1993-08-31 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 981450663X |
This book contains an edited comprehensive collection of reprints on the subject of the large N limit as applied to a wide spectrum of problems in quantum field theory and statistical mechanics. The topics include (1) Spin Systems; (2) Large N Limit of Gauge Theories; (3) Two-Dimensional QCD; (4) Exact Results on Planar Perturbation Series and the Nature of the 1/N Series; (5) Schwinger-Dyson Equations Approach; (6) QCD Phenomenological Lagrangians and the Large N Limit; (7) Other Approaches to Large N: Eguchi-Kawai Model, Collective Fields and Numerical Methods; (8) Matrix Models; (9) Two-Dimensional Gravity and String Theory.
Resurgence, Physics and Numbers
Title | Resurgence, Physics and Numbers PDF eBook |
Author | Frédéric Fauvet |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 384 |
Release | 2017-11-17 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 8876426132 |
This book is issued from a conference around resurgent functions in Physics and multiple zetavalues, which was held at the Centro di Ricerca Matematica Ennio de Giorgi in Pisa, on May 18-22, 2015. This meeting originally stemmed from the impressive upsurge of interest for Jean Ecalle's alien calculus in Physics, in the last years – a trend that has considerably developed since then. The volume contains both original research papers and surveys, by leading experts in the field, reflecting the themes that were tackled at this event: Stokes phenomenon and resurgence, in various mathematical and physical contexts but also related constructions in algebraic combinatorics and results concerning numbers, specifically multiple zetavalues.