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The Conceptual Framework of Quantum Field Theory (Paperback)
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The Conceptual Framework of Quantum Field Theory (Paperback)
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The book attempts to provide an introduction to quantum field
theory emphasizing conceptual issues frequently neglected in more
"utilitarian" treatments of the subject. The book is divided into
four parts, entitled respectively "Origins", "Dynamics",
"Symmetries", and "Scales". The emphasis is conceptual - the aim is
to build the theory up systematically from some clearly stated
foundational concepts - and therefore to a large extent
anti-historical, but two historical Chapters ("Origins") are
included to situate quantum field theory in the larger context of
modern physical theories. The three remaining sections of the book
follow a step by step reconstruction of this framework beginning
with just a few basic assumptions: relativistic invariance, the
basic principles of quantum mechanics, and the prohibition of
physical action at a distance embodied in the clustering principle.
The "Dynamics" section of the book lays out the basic structure of
quantum field theory arising from the sequential insertion of
quantum-mechanical, relativistic and locality constraints. The
central role of symmetries in relativistic quantum field theories
is explored in the third section of the book, while in the final
section, entitled "Scales", we explore in detail the feature of
quantum field theories most critical for their enormous
phenomenological success - the scale separation property embodied
by the renormalization group properties of a theory defined by an
effective local Lagrangian.
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