Selected Topics in Gauge Theories [electronic resource] / by Walter Dittrich, Martin Reuter.
Material type: TextSeries: Lecture Notes in Physics ; 244Publisher: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1986Description: V, 319 p. 1 illus. online resourceContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9783540397465
- 539.72 23
- QC793-793.5
- QC174.45-174.52
Classical Yang-mills theory -- Path integral quantization of gauge theories -- Background field methods -- Instantons and ?-Vacua -- Schwinger model (QED)2 -- Chiral anomaly in (QCD)2 -- Fujikawa's path integral method -- Chiral anomaly in the Schwinger-Symanzik formalism -- Anomalous ward identities à la Wess-Zumino -- Topological aspects of the Wess-Zumino effective action -- Topological baryon number and the Skyrme model -- The Atiyah-Singer index theorem (for the Euclidean Dirac operator) -- Chiral anomalies and differential geometry -- Effective gauge theory actions in (2n + 1) dimensions -- Chiral anomaly with gravitational background field -- Vacuum charge in 2n + 1 dimensions.
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