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Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
November 2022
Print publication year:
2023
Online ISBN:
9781009290876
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Book description

Unifying topics that are scattered throughout the literature, this book offers a definitive review of mathematical aspects of quantization and quantum field theory. It presents both basic and advanced topics of quantum field theory in a mathematically consistent way, focusing on canonical commutation and anti-commutation relations. It begins with a discussion of the mathematical structures underlying free bosonic or fermionic fields: tensors, algebras, Fock spaces, and CCR and CAR representations. Applications of these topics to physical problems are discussed in later chapters. Although most of the book is devoted to free quantum fields, it also contains an exposition of two important aspects of interacting fields: diagrammatics and the Euclidean approach to constructive quantum field theory. With its in-depth coverage, this text is essential reading for graduate students and researchers in mathematics and physics. This title, first published in 2013, has been reissued as an Open Access publication on Cambridge Core.

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'… offers much highly valuable material.'

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Contents

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  • Frontmatter
    pp i-vi
  • Dedication
    pp vii-viii
  • Contents
    pp ix-xii
  • Introduction
    pp 1-7
  • 1 - Vector spaces
    pp 8-35
  • 2 - Operators in Hilbert spaces
    pp 36-56
  • 3 - Tensor algebras
    pp 57-91
  • 4 - Analysis in L2(Rd)
    pp 92-110
  • 5 - Measures
    pp 111-141
  • 6 - Algebras
    pp 142-158
  • 7 - Anti–symmetric calculus
    pp 159-172
  • 8 - Periodic magnetic channels
    pp 173-211
  • 9 - CCR on Fock space
    pp 212-238
  • 10 - Symplectic invariance of CCR in finite–dimensions
    pp 239-265
  • 11 - Symplectic invariance of the CCR on Fock spaces
    pp 266-312
  • 12 - Canonical anti–commutation relations
    pp 313-336
  • 13 - CAR on Fock spaces
    pp 337-350
  • 14 - Orthogonal invariance of CAR algebras
    pp 351-367
  • 15 - Clifford relations
    pp 368-385
  • 16 - Orthogonal invariance of the CAR on Fock spaces
    pp 386-422
  • 17 - Quasi–free states
    pp 423-474
  • 18 - Dynamics of quantum fields
    pp 475-511
  • 19 - Quantum fields on space–time
    pp 512-554
  • 20 - Diagrammatics
    pp 555-604
  • 21 - Euclidean approach for bosons
    pp 606-640
  • 22 - Interacting bosonic fields
    pp 641-660
  • References
    pp 661-667
  • Symbols index
    pp 668-670
  • Subject index
    pp 671-676

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