An Introduction To Quantum Field Theory (Frontiers in Physics)
by Michael E. Peskin, Dan V. Schroeder
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Author: Dan V. Schroeder, Michael E. PeskinEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1995-10-01
ISBN: 0201503972
Number of pages: 864
Publisher: Westview Press
Book Reviews of An Introduction To Quantum Field Theory (Frontiers in Physics)
Book Review: Peshkin & Schroeder + Hand holding notes to GUT and TOE group theory via email
Summary: 5 Stars
From Los Alamos National Laboratory:
Basic tool set to understand the mathematical tools of Grand Unified
Theories (GUTs) and Theories of Everything (TOEs):
The 21 pages of hand holding notes, then:
1) A course in quantum mechanics involving raising and lowering
operators for the harmonic oscillator and angular momentum, e.g.,
Sakurai, "Modern Quantum Mechanics", or "Quantum Mechanics" Vol. I and
II by C. Cohen-Tannoudji et al.
2) Optional, but strongly recommended, "Quantum Electrodynamics",
by
Greiner and Reinhardt to cover the first Quantum Field Theory, namely,
Quantum Electrodynamics (QED). Then (still optional) "Introduction to
Particle Physics" by Griffiths to see other QFTs other than QED.
3) "Quantum Field Theory", 2nd. ed. by Ryder.
In these notes, a total of 21 citations are provided. The idea is for
the reader to be able to understand, "An Exceptionally Simple Theory
of Everything", A. G. Lissi, arXivi0711.0770v1, 6 Nov. 2007. Lissi
uses the exceptional group E8. These notes give the reader the tools
to deal with the 4 classical Lie groups, and the 5 exception Lie
groups, of which E8 is one of the latter groups. This group is
covered in great detail in, the final required text,
4) "Lie Groups, Lie Algebras, and Some of Their Applications", R.
Gilmore, Dover 2002.
Sometimes these notes were written with full room illumination.
Sometimes these notes were written in bed, with a dim lamp, by my
sleeping wife. Hence the quality of "pencilmenship" varies--sorry.
I'm sure typos crept in, especially at 2 A.M. after having gotten up
at 7 A.M. the previous morning to shuttle my two kids to school. Yet
these notes provide not only the minimal mathematical tool set to
really get QFT, both parts of QFT, the summing (Feynman Diagrams), and
the "grouping" (Group theory), but also an outline of how to really
learn what QFT is all about.
QFT is not my primary field. It took me years and dozens of books,
and hundreds of papers, to cut out the BS and get to the key points.
It is my hope that students wishing to become QFT theorists can save a
lot of time and heartache through these notes.
Sincerely,
Alex Alaniz, Ph.D.
Los Alamos, NM
aalaniz@lanl.gov
Summary of An Introduction To Quantum Field Theory (Frontiers in Physics)
An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory is a textbook intended for the graduate physics course covering relativistic quantum mechanics, quantum electrodynamics, and Feynman diagrams. The authors make these subjects accessible through carefully worked examples illustrating the technical aspects of the subject, and intuitive explanations of what is going on behind the mathematics. After presenting the basics of quantum electrodynamics, the authors discuss the theory of renormalization and its relation to statistical mechanics, and introduce the renormalization group. This discussion sets the stage for a discussion of the physical principles that underlie the fundamental interactions of elementary particle physics and their description by gauge field theories.
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