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Selected Topics in Gauge Theories
Lecture Notes in Physics 244
ISBN/EAN: 9783540160649
Umbreit-Nr.: 6593067
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: v, 319 S., 1 s/w Illustr., 319 p. 1 illus.
Format in cm:
Einband:
kartoniertes Buch
Erschienen am 01.01.1986
Auflage: 1/1986
- Zusatztext
- InhaltsangabeClassical Yang-mills theory.- Path integral quantization of gauge theories.- Background field methods.- Instantons and ?-Vacua.- Schwinger model (QED)2.- Chiral anomaly in (QCD)2.- Fujikawa's path integral method.- Chiral anomaly in the Schwinger-Symanzik formalism.- Anomalous ward identities à la Wess-Zumino.- Topological aspects of the Wess-Zumino effective action.- Topological baryon number and the Skyrme model.- The Atiyah-Singer index theorem (for the Euclidean Dirac operator).- Chiral anomalies and differential geometry.- Effective gauge theory actions in (2n + 1) dimensions.- Chiral anomaly with gravitational background field.- Vacuum charge in 2n + 1 dimensions.
- Kurztext
- InhaltsangabeClassical Yang-mills theory.- Path integral quantization of gauge theories.- Background field methods.- Instantons and ?-Vacua.- Schwinger model (QED)2.- Chiral anomaly in (QCD)2.- Fujikawa's path integral method.- Chiral anomaly in the Schwinger-Symanzik formalism.- Anomalous ward identities à la Wess-Zumino.- Topological aspects of the Wess-Zumino effective action.- Topological baryon number and the Skyrme model.- The Atiyah-Singer index theorem (for the Euclidean Dirac operator).- Chiral anomalies and differential geometry.- Effective gauge theory actions in (2n + 1) dimensions.- Chiral anomaly with gravitational background field.- Vacuum charge in 2n + 1 dimensions.