Transcription of QUANTUM FIELD THEORY – 230A
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QUANTUM FIELD THEORY 230 AEric D HokerDepartment of Physics and AstronomyUniversity of California, Los Angeles, CA 900952004, October 3 Contents1 Relativity and QUANTUM mechanics .. Why QUANTUM FIELD THEORY ? .. Further conceptual changes required by relativity .. Some History and present significance of QFT .. 82 QUANTUM Mechanics A Classical Mechanics .. Principles of QUANTUM Mechanics .. QUANTUM Systems from classical mechanics .. QUANTUM systems associated with Lie algebras .. Appendix I : Lie groups, Lie algebras, representations .. Functional integral formulation .. 193 Principles of Relativistic QUANTUM FIELD The Lorentz and Poincar e groups and algebras .. Parity and Time reversal.
theory may be formulated for non-relativistic systems in which the number of particles is not conserved, (recall spin waves, phonons, spinons etc). Here, however, we shall concen-trate on relativistic quantum field theory because relativity forces …
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