Introduction to Gauge Field Theories (Theoretical and Mathematical Physics)

The quantum theory of gauge fields, and how it is used to build unified gauge models and a theory of the strong interactions between elementary particles, is the subject of M. Chaichian and N. F. Nelipa's introduction. The authors set themselves three aims: to outline the ideas underneath unified models and strong interactions, to discuss the leading models and strong interaction theory with their experimental consequences, and to introduce the path-integral method, a mathematical approach well suited to constructing the quantum theory of gauge fields. They keep to broadly traditional, accepted material and touch on the most important alternative approaches in a conclusion. It was first published in 1984.

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