This is a monograph for students and scholars which paves the way towards a covariant theory of hadrons. Starting from Dirac's quantization procedure the author leads the student to the concept of Hamiltonian Dynamics and to light cone quantization. Designed as a textbook based on many lectures of the author, it also contains many new and interesting research results.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
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978-3-540-21066-5 (9783540210665)
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Preliminary ToC: Introduction: The Hadronic Wave Function.- Particles and Fields.- The Scalar Field.- The Dirac Equation.- The Hamiltonian Form of the Dirac Equation.- Dirac on his Way from a One-Body to a Many-Body Theory.- Gauge Theories.- The Lagrangian: Equations and Constants of the Motion.- Quantization of the Scalar Field.- Quantization of the Dirac Fields.- quantization of the Dirac-Maxwell Fields.- Quantization Under Constraints.- QED: Energy and Momentum as Fock-Space Operators.- Hamiltonian Dynamics.- Bound States on the Light Cone.- Discretized Light-Cone Quantization.- The Method of Iterated Resolvents.- Effective Interactions in 3+1 Dimensions.- Non-Perturbative Regularization and Renormalization.- The Impact on Hadronic Physics.- The Light-Cone Vacuum.- Chiral Symmetry Breaking.
