04623nam 22006852 450 991045034510332120151005020622.01-107-13180-41-280-41519-397866104151991-139-14754-40-511-16998-10-511-06401-20-511-05768-70-511-33122-30-511-53514-70-511-07247-3(CKB)1000000000030840(EBL)217936(OCoLC)171121004(SSID)ssj0000201978(PQKBManifestationID)11196360(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000201978(PQKBWorkID)10250830(PQKB)11702847(UkCbUP)CR9780511535147(MiAaPQ)EBC217936(Au-PeEL)EBL217936(CaPaEBR)ebr10073583(CaONFJC)MIL41519(EXLCZ)99100000000003084020090429d2002|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierMethods of contemporary gauge theory /Yuri Makeenko[electronic resource]Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2002.1 online resource (xii, 417 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Cambridge monographs on mathematical physicsTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).0-521-02215-0 0-521-80911-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. 405-410) and index.Path Integrals --Operator calculus --Free propagator --Euclidean formulation --Path-ordering of operators --Feynman disentangling --Calculation of the Gaussian path integral --Transition amplitudes --Propagators in external field --Second quantization --Integration over fields --Grassmann variables --Perturbation theory --Schwinger-Dyson equations --Commutator terms --Schwinger-Dyson equations (continued) --Regularization --Quantum anomalies from path integral --QED via path integral --Chiral Ward identity --Chiral anomaly --Chiral anomaly (calculation) --Scale anomaly --Instantons in quantum mechanics --Double-well potential --The instanton solution --Instanton contribution to path integral --Symmetry restoration by instantons --Topological charge and [theta]-vacua --Lattice Gauge Theories --Observables in gauge theories --Gauge invariance --Phase factors (definition) --Phase factors (properties) --Aharonov-Bohm effect --Gauge fields on a lattice --Sites, links, plaquettes and all that --Lattice formulation --The Haar measure --Wilson loops --Strong-coupling expansion --Area law and confinement --Asymptotic scaling --Lattice methods --Phase transitions --Mean-field method --Mean-field method (variational) --Lattice renormalization group --Monte Carlo method --Some Monte Carlo results --Fermions on a lattice --Chiral fermions --Fermion doubling --Kogut-Susskind fermions --Wilson fermions --Quark condensate --Finite temperatures --Feynman-Kac formula.This 2002 book introduces the quantum theory of gauge fields. Emphasis is placed on four non-perturbative methods: path integrals, lattice gauge theories, the 1/N expansion, and reduced matrix models, all of which have important contemporary applications. Written as a textbook, it assumes a knowledge of quantum mechanics and elements of perturbation theory, while many relevant concepts are pedagogically introduced at a basic level in the first half of the book. The second half comprehensively covers large-N Yang-Mills theory. The book uses an approach to gauge theories based on path-dependent phase factors known as the Wilson loops, and contains problems with detailed solutions to aid understanding. Suitable for advanced graduate courses in quantum field theory, the book will also be of interest to researchers in high energy theory and condensed matter physics as a survey of recent developments in gauge theory.Cambridge monographs on mathematical physics.Gauge fields (Physics)Mathematical physicsGauge fields (Physics)Mathematical physics.530.14/35Makeenko Yuri1951-50021UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910450345103321Methods of contemporary gauge theory167442UNINA02890nam 2200553 450 991079308650332120200514202323.01-350-98518-X1-78673-217-31-78672-217-810.5040/9781350985186(CKB)3710000001405691(MiAaPQ)EBC4877996(OCoLC)1128170706(CaBNVSL)mat50985186(CaBNVSL)9781350985186(UkLoBP)9781350985186(EXLCZ)99371000000140569120191118d2019 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierA short history of the Phoenicians /Mark WoolmerFirst edition.London, England :I. B. Tauris,2019.London :Bloomsbury Publishing,2019.1 online resource (234 pages) illustrations, maps, photographsI.B. Tauris short histories1-350-13026-5 1-78076-617-3 Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-226) and index.Introduction -- Historical overview -- Government and society -- Religion -- Art and material culture -- Overseas expansion -- Epilogue.The Phoenicians present a tantalizing face to the ancient historian. Latin sources suggest they once had an extensive literature of history, law, philosophy and religion; but all now is lost. Offering new insights based on recent archaeological discoveries in their heartland of modern-day Lebanon, Mark Woolmer presents a fresh appraisal of this fascinating, yet elusive, Semitic people. Discussing material culture, language and alphabet, religion (including sacred prostitution of women and boys to the goddess Astarte), funerary custom and trade and expansion into the Punic west, he explores Phoenicia in all its paradoxical complexity. Viewed in antiquity as sage scribes and intrepid mariners who pushed back the boundaries of the known world, and as skilled engineers who built monumental harbour cities like Tyre and Sidon, the Phoenicians were also considered (especially by their rivals, the Romans) to be profiteers cruelly trading in human lives. The author shows them above all to have been masters of the sea: this was a civilization that circumnavigated Africa two thousand years before Vasco da Gama did it in 1498.I.B. Tauris short histories.PhoeniciansPhoeniciansHistoryPhoeniciaCivilizationPhoeniciansHistory.939.4/4Woolmer Mark752401YDXCPCaBNVSLUkLoBPBOOK9910793086503321A short history of the Phoenicians3813727UNINA