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Quantum Field Theory: Perspective and Prospective

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  • © 1999

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Editors:
  1. Cécile DeWitt-Morette

    1. Department of Physics and Center for Relativity, University of Texas, Austin, USA

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  2. Jean-Bernard Zuber

    1. CEA Saclay, Service de Physique Theorique, Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France

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Part of the book series: Nato Science Series C: (ASIC, volume 530)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Correlation Functions Through Variational Methods

    • R. Balian
    Pages 1-17

  3. Reader’s Guide to String Duality and Matrix Theory

    • T. Banks
    Pages 19-34

  4. An Introduction to Equivariant Cohomology

    • R. Bott
    Pages 35-57

  5. Hopf Algebras, Renormalization and Noncommutative Geometry

    • A. Connes, D. Kreimer
    Pages 59-109

  6. The Peierls Bracket

    • B. Dewitt
    Pages 111-136

  7. Gauge Theory without Ghosts

    • B. Dewitt, C. Molina-Paris
    Pages 137-138

  8. Quantized Branes and Symmetries of String Theory

    • L. Dolan
    Pages 139-160

  9. Instructive History of the Quantum Inverse Scattering Method

    • L. Faddeev
    Pages 161-177

  10. The Electron is Inexhaustible

    • J. Fröhlich
    Pages 179-215

  11. Exact Solution of Random Tiling Models

    • B. Nienhuis
    Pages 217-243

  12. Dimensionally Reduced Chern-Simons Terms and Their Solitons

    • R. Jackiw, So-Young Pi
    Pages 245-256

  13. BPS Branes in Supergravity

    • K. S. Stelle
    Pages 257-351

  14. Selected Topics in Perturbative Field Theory: Renormalization, Differential Algebras

    • R. Stora
    Pages 353-368

  15. Lectures on Random Matrices and Hall’s Fluids

    • A. Zee
    Pages 369-374

  16. Renormalization and Renormalization Group: From the Discovery of UV Divergences to the Concept of Effective Field Theories

    • J. Zinn-Justin
    Pages 375-388

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 389-403
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It has been said that `String theorists talk to string theorists and everyone else wonders what they are saying'. This book will be a great help to those researchers who are challenged by modern quantum field theory.
Quantum field theory experienced a renaissance in the late 1960s. Here, participants in the Les Houches sessions of 1970/75, now key players in quantum field theory and its many impacts, assess developments in their field of interest and provide guidance to young researchers challenged by these developments, but overwhelmed by their complexities.
The book is not a textbook on string theory, rather it is a complement to Polchinski's book on string theory. It is a survey of current problems which have their origin in quantum field theory.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Physics and Center for Relativity, University of Texas, Austin, USA

    Cécile DeWitt-Morette

  • CEA Saclay, Service de Physique Theorique, Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France

    Jean-Bernard Zuber

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