Gauge Fields: Introduction to Quantum Theory
L.D. Faddev, A.A. Slavnov, D.B. Pontecorvo, "Gauge Fields: Introduction to Quantum Theory"
1981 | pages: 240 | ISBN: 0805390162 | PDF | 13,8 mb
1981 | pages: 240 | ISBN: 0805390162 | PDF | 13,8 mb
Progress in quantum field theory, during the last ten years, is to a great extent due to the development of the theory of Yang-Mills fields, sometimes called gauge fields. These fields open up new possibilities tor the description of interactions of elementary particles in the framework of quantum field theory. Gauge fields are involved in most modern models of strong and also of weak and electromagnetic interactions. There also arise the extremely attractive prospects of unification of all the interactions into a single universal interaction.
At the same time the Yang-Mills fields have surely not been sufficiently considered in modern monographical literature. Although the Yang-Mills theory seems to be a rather special model from the point of view of general quantum field theory, it is extremely specific and the methods used in this theory are quite far from being traditional. The existing monograph of Konoplyova and Popov, "Gauge Fields," deals mainly with the geometrical aspects of the gauge field theory and illuminates the quantum theory of the Yang-Mills fields insufficiently. We hope that the present book to some extent will close this gap.
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