Symmetries and Symmetry Breaking in Field Theory

Name: Symmetries and Symmetry Breaking in Field Theory
Brand: CRC Press

CRC Press

Symmetries and Symmetry Breaking in Field TheoryAuthor(s): Parthasarathi Mitra\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: CRC Press\nISBN-13: 9780367378684, 978-0367378684\nSynopsis\nMany courses on modern quantum field theory focus on the formulation and application of field theory, leaving topics related to symmetry underdeveloped. This leads to students often having an incomplete understanding of symmetries. Filling this gap, Symmetries and Symmetry Breaking in Field Theory sheds light on various aspects of symmetry in field theory.\n\nThe book presents a broad selection of important topics, including constraint theory, generalized PauliVillars regularization, the measure approach to anomalies, zeta function regularization, and anomalous gauge theories. The author explains how some classical symmetries are broken by anomalies and how other symmetries of the theory are spontaneously broken. He discusses all of the ideas in as simple a way as p.