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Record Nr.

UNINA9910257439903321

Autore

Dittrich Walter

Titolo

Selected Topics in Gauge Theories [[electronic resource] /] / by Walter Dittrich, Martin Reuter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1986

ISBN

3-540-39746-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 1986.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (V, 319 p. 1 illus.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Physics, , 0075-8450 ; ; 244

Disciplina

539.72

Soggetti

Elementary particles (Physics)

Quantum field theory

Mathematical physics

Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory

Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Classical Yang-mills theory -- Path integral quantization of gauge theories -- Background field methods -- Instantons and ?-Vacua -- Schwinger model (QED)2 -- Chiral anomaly in (QCD)2 -- Fujikawa's path integral method -- Chiral anomaly in the Schwinger-Symanzik formalism -- Anomalous ward identities à la Wess-Zumino -- Topological aspects of the Wess-Zumino effective action -- Topological baryon number and the Skyrme model -- The Atiyah-Singer index theorem (for the Euclidean Dirac operator) -- Chiral anomalies and differential geometry -- Effective gauge theory actions in (2n + 1) dimensions -- Chiral anomaly with gravitational background field -- Vacuum charge in 2n + 1 dimensions.