Synopses & Reviews
This should be a useful reference for anybody with an interest in quantum theory.
Review
"...a good and unique book." Choice"This voluminous text covers essentially all the basics of quantum field theory and more, in a pleasing style and a nice, consistent notation, without skating over difficult points. I can honestly recommend it as an excellent teaching text." Mathematical Reviews"...a very solid pedagogical textbook expounding quantum field theory, as applied to relativistic particle physics...a careful and comprehensive introduction to the physics of the Standard Model together with the mathematical background required to understand it." Siam Review
Table of Contents
1. Relativistic quantum mechanics; 2. Fock space, the scalar field and canonical quantization; 3. Symmetries, conserved currents and conserved quantities; 4. The scattering matrix and Feynmann diagrams; 5. Differential transition probabilities and predictions; 6. Representations of the Lorentz group; 7. Two-component scalar fields; 8. Four-component scalar fields; 9. Massive vector fields; 10. Reformulating scattering theory; 11. Functional integral quantization; 12. Quantization of guage theories; 13. Anomalies of gauge theories; 14. SU(3) representation theory; 15. The structure of the standard model; 16. Hadrons, flavor symmetry and nucleon-pion interactions; 17. Tree-level applications of the standard model; 18. Regularization and renormalization; 19. Renormalization of QED; 20. Renormalization and preservation of symmetries; 21. The renormalization group equations.