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_beng
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_cUkCbUP
050 0 0 _aQC174.17.P27
_bB37 2006
082 0 4 _a530.143
_222
100 1 _aBastianelli, Fiorenzo,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aPath integrals and anomalies in curved space /
_cFiorenzo Bastianelli, Peter Van Nieuwenhuizen.
246 3 _aPath Integrals & Anomalies in Curved Space
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2006.
300 _a1 online resource (xvii, 379 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aCambridge monographs on mathematical physics
500 _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
505 0 0 _g1.
_tIntroduction to path integrals --
_g2.
_tTime slicing --
_g3.
_tMode regularization --
_g4.
_tDimensional regularization --
_g5.
_tIntroduciton to anomalies --
_g6.
_tChiral anomalies from susy quantum mechanics --
_g7.
_tTrace anomalies from ordinary and susy quantum mechanics --
_g8.
_tConclusions and summary.
520 _aPath integrals provide a powerful method for describing quantum phenomena. This book introduces the quantum mechanics of particles that move in curved space by employing path integrals and then using them to compute anomalies in quantum field theories. The authors start by deriving path integrals for particles moving in curved space and their supersymmetric generalizations. They then discuss the regularization schemes essential to constructing and computing these path integrals. This topic is used to introduce regularization and renormalization in quantum field theories in a wider context. These methods are then applied to discuss and calculate anomalies in quantum field theory. Such anomalies provide enormous constraints in the search for physical theories of elementary particles, quantum gravity and string theories. An advanced text for researchers and graduate students of quantum field theory and string theory, the first part is also a stand-alone introduction to path integrals in quantum mechanics.
650 0 _aPath integrals.
650 0 _aCurves.
700 1 _aVan Nieuwenhuizen, Peter,
_eauthor.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9780521847612
830 0 _aCambridge monographs on mathematical physics.
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511535031
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