An Introduction To Quantum Field Theory, Student Economy Edition

Preface -- Notations and Conventions -- Editor's Foreword -- Feynman Diagrams and Quantum Electrodynamics -- Invitation: Pair Production in e + e ? Annihilation -- The Klein-Gordon Field -- The Dirac Field -- Interacting Fields and Feynman Diagrams -- Elementary Processes of Quantum Electrodynamics -- Radiative Corrections: Introduction -- Radiative Corrections: Some Formal Developments -- Renormalization -- Invitation: Ultraviolet Cutoffs and Critical Fluctuations -- Functional Methods -- Systematics of Renormalization -- Renormalization and Symmetry -- The Renormalization Group -- Critical Exponents and Scalar Field Theory -- Non-Abelian Gauge Theories -- Invitation: The Parton Model of Hadron Structure -- Non-Abelian Gauge Invariance -- Quantization of Non-Abelian Gauge Theories -- Quantum Chromodynamics -- Operator Products and Effective Vertices -- Perturbation Theory Anomalies -- Gauge Theories with Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking -- Quantization of Spontaneously Broken Gauge Theories -- Epilogue -- Quantum Field Theory at the Frontier -- Reference Formulae -- Corrections to this Book