Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Scalar Green functions and their perturbative solutions
- 2 Connected Green functions and their one-particle irreducible components
- 3 Regularisation and renormalisation
- 4 The scalar functional integral
- 5 Series expansions and their summation
- 6 Taking the path integral more seriously
- 7 Quantum theory on non-simply-connected configuration spaces
- 8 Stochastic quantisation
- 9 Fermions
- 10 Quantum electrodynamics
- 11 Non-Abelian gauge theories
- 12 Explicit symmetry breaking and its classical limit
- 13 The effective potential
- 14 Field theory at non-zero temperature
- 15 Field theory at non-zero temperature: real-time formulation
- 16 Instantons
- 17 Composite fields and the large-N limit
- References
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Scalar Green functions and their perturbative solutions
- 2 Connected Green functions and their one-particle irreducible components
- 3 Regularisation and renormalisation
- 4 The scalar functional integral
- 5 Series expansions and their summation
- 6 Taking the path integral more seriously
- 7 Quantum theory on non-simply-connected configuration spaces
- 8 Stochastic quantisation
- 9 Fermions
- 10 Quantum electrodynamics
- 11 Non-Abelian gauge theories
- 12 Explicit symmetry breaking and its classical limit
- 13 The effective potential
- 14 Field theory at non-zero temperature
- 15 Field theory at non-zero temperature: real-time formulation
- 16 Instantons
- 17 Composite fields and the large-N limit
- References
- Index
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- Path Integral Methods in Quantum Field Theory , pp. i - ivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1987