1st Edition

Functional Methods in Quantum Field Theory and Statistical Physics

By A.N. Vasiliev Copyright 1998
326 Pages
by CRC Press

328 Pages
by CRC Press

320 Pages
by Routledge

Providing a systematic introduction to the techniques which are fundamental to quantum field theory, this book pays special attention to the use of these techniques in a wide variety of areas, including ordinary quantum mechanics, quantum mechanics in the second-quantized formulation, relativistic quantum field theory, Euclidean field theory, quantum statistics at finite temperature, and the... Read more
1. The Basic Formalism of Field Theory 2. Specific Systems 3. The Massless Yang-Mills Field 4. Euclidean Field Theory 5. Statistical Physics 6. Variational Methods and Functional Legendre Transformations

Biography

Vasiliev, A.N.