QUANTUM FIELD THEORY I
Physics 611 - Fall 2008

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Unit 1: The Klein-Gordon field (scalars)

TEXTBOOKS: An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory, by Michael E. Peskin and Daniel V. Schroeder, Addison Wesley
Field Theory - A Modern Primer, by Pierre Ramond, Frontiers in Physics, Benjamin/Cummings.
The Quantum Theory of Fields, by Steven Weinberg, Vols. I and II, Cambridge University Press.
Quantum Field Theory, by Claude Itzykson and Jean-Bernard Zuber, McGraw Hill.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

  1. Symmetry groups
  2. Canonical quantization
  3. The Fock space
  4. Causality and propagation
  5. Symmetries and conservation laws
  6. Axioms of relativistic QFT
  7. The CPT theorem

REFERENCES

  • Peskin, Chapter 2.
  • Ramond, Chapter I.
  • Weinberg, Chapter 2, Sections 5.1-2.
  • Itzykson and Zuber, Sections 1-1,2, 3-1,4

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