TY - BOOK ID - 75305066 TI - Non-perturbative field theory AU - Frishman, Yitzhak AU - Sonnenschein, Jacob PY - 2010 SN - 9780521662659 0521662656 9780511770838 9781107424715 9780511770265 051177026X 9781139636469 1139636464 9780511767180 0511767188 1107207312 1282651765 9786612651762 0511769415 0511765797 0511770839 0511768575 1107424712 9781107207318 9781282651760 6612651768 9780511769412 9780511765797 9780511768576 PB - Cambridge, UK New York Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Field theory (Physics) KW - Perturbation (Quantum dynamics) KW - Champs, Théorie des (Physique) KW - Perturbation (Mécanique quantique) KW - Perturbation theory, Quantum mechanical KW - Perturbation (Mathematics) KW - Quantum theory KW - Classical field theory KW - Continuum physics KW - Physics KW - Continuum mechanics UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:75305066 AB - Providing a new perspective on quantum field theory, this book gives a pedagogical and up-to-date exposition of non-perturbative methods in relativistic quantum field theory and introduces the reader to modern research work in theoretical physics. It describes in detail non-perturbative methods in quantum field theory, and explores two- dimensional and four- dimensional gauge dynamics using those methods. The book concludes with a summary emphasizing the interplay between two- and four- dimensional gauge theories. Aimed at graduate students and researchers, this book covers topics from two-dimensional conformal symmetry, affine Lie algebras, solitons, integrable models, bosonization, and 't Hooft model, to four-dimensional conformal invariance, integrability, large N expansion, Skyrme model, monopoles and instantons. Applications, first to simple field theories and gauge dynamics in two dimensions, and then to gauge theories in four dimensions and quantum chromodynamics (QCD) in particular, are thoroughly described. ER -