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Unit 2: Path Integrals 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 Definition Example: the Klein-Gordon field Semi-classical expansion Feynman rules Derivative interactions Fermionic path integrals The effective action Ward identities REFERENCES Peskin, Chapter 9. Ramond, Chapters II, III, V. Weinberg, Chapter 9. Itzykson and Zuber, Sections 9-1,2.

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