| Finite Quantum Electrodynamics: The Causal Approach Contributor(s): Scharf, G. (Author) |
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ISBN: 3540601422 ISBN-13: 9783540601425 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $94.05 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 1995 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Physics - Electricity - Science | Physics - Quantum Theory - Science | Physics - Nuclear |
| Dewey: 537.67 |
| LCCN: 95035562 |
| Series: Lectures Notes in Physics |
| Physical Information: 409 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this textbook for graduate students in physics the author carefully analyses the role of causality in Q.E.D. This new approach avoids ultraviolet divergences, so that the detailed calculations of scattering processes and proofs can be carried out in a mathematically rigorous manner. Significant themes such as renormalizability, gauge invariance, unitarity, renormalization group, interacting fields and axial anomalies are discussed. The extension of the methods to non-abelian gauge theories is briefly described. The book differs considerably from its first edition: Chap. 3 on Causal Perturbation Theory was completely rewritten and Chap. 4 on Properties of the S-Matrix and Chap. 5 on Other Electromagnetic Couplings are new. |
