文档介绍：Graduate Texts in Contemporary Physics
Series Editors:
R. Stephen Berry
Joseph L. Birman
Mark P. Silverman
H. Eugene Stanley
Mikhail Voloshin
V. Parameswaran Nair
Quantum Field Theory
A Modern Perspective
With 100 Illustrations
V. Parameswaran Nair
Physics Department
City College
Convent Avenue & 138th Street
New York, NY 10031
USA
Series Editors
R. Stephen Berry Joseph L. Birman Mark P. Silverman
Department of Chemistry Department of Physics Department of Physics
University of Chicago City College of CUNY Trinity College
Chicago, IL 60637 New York, NY 10031 Hartford, CT 06106
USA USA USA
H. Eugene Stanley Mikhail Voloshin
Center for Polymer Studies Theoretical Physics Institute
Physics Department Tate Laboratory of Physics
Boston University The University of Minnesota
Boston, MA 02215 Minneapolis, MN 55455
USA USA
On the cover: The pinching contribution to the interaction between fermions. See page 213
for discussion.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Nair, V. P.
Topics in quantum field theory / . Nair.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-387-21386-4 (alk. paper)
1. Quantum field theory. I. Title.
2004
′3—dc22 2004049910
ISBN 0-387-21386-4 Printed on acid-free paper.
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