TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mitra,P.
TI  - Symmetries and symmetry breaking in field theory
SN  - 9781466581043 (hardcover : alk. paper)
U1  - 530.143 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Boca Raton : 
PB  - CRC Press, 
KW  - Symmetry (Physics)
KW  - Broken symmetry (Physics)
KW  - Quantum field theory
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. Introduction--
2. Elements of classical field theory --
3. Global symmetries --
4. Local symmetry and constraint theory --
5. Functional integral formulation of field theory --
6. Nonabelian gauge symmetry --
7. Discrete symmetries --
8. Spontaneous symmetry breaking --
9. Breaking of chiral symmetry on quantization: the anomaly--
Index
N2  - The book presents a broad selection of important topics, including constraint theory, generalized Pauli–Villars regularization, the measure approach to anomalies, zeta function regularization, and anomalous gauge theories. The author explains how some classical symmetries are broken by anomalies and how other symmetries of the theory are spontaneously broken. He discusses all of the ideas in as simple a way as possible

ER  -