QUANTUM FIELD THEORY I

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UNIT 1: The Klein-Gordon (scalar) field

TABLE OF CONTENTS

  1. Canonical quantization
  2. Fock space
  3. Representations of the Lorentz group
  4. The Schrodinger equation
  5. Causality
  6. Measurement of quantum fields
  7. Fluctuations
  8. Symmetry and conservation laws
  9. Spacetime symmetries
  10. Internal symmetry
  11. Charge conjugation
  12. Discrete spacetime symmetry
  13. Axioms of relativistic QFT
  14. The CPT theorem

REFERENCES

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

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