Particles and Fields

Abstract

D. Lurie Chichester: John Wiley. 1968 Pp. xii + 506. Price £7 This is a useful introductory textbook, at the graduate student level, to the formal apparatus of the quantum theory of fields. The contents include: relativistic one particle equations; Lagrangian field theory; quantum fields; quantization of spin 1 and spin 3/2 fields; interacting quantum fields; perturbation theory; vacuum expectation values and the S-matrix; currents, coupling constants, and sum rules; bound states; and the functional method.