John M. Cornwall (Univ Distinguished Professor of Physics Emeritus, Joannis Papavassiliou (Spain Universitat de Valencia), Daniele Binosi

The Pinch Technique and its Applications to Non-Abelian Gauge Theories

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Produktbeschreibung

Non-Abelian gauge theories, such as quantum chromodynamics (QCD) or electroweak theory, are best studied with the aid of Green's functions. The Pinch Technique provides a systematic framework for constructing such Green's functions, and many useful applications. This book is ideal for elementary particle theorists and graduate students.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Monographs on Particle Physics, Nuclear Physics and Cosmology
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 704g
• ISBN-13: 9780521437523
• ISBN-10: 0521437520
• Artikelnr.: 31892096

Autorenporträt

John M. Cornwall's main research interest is non-perturbative quantum chromodynamics, both in four dimensions and in three (with applications to the functional Schrödinger equation and to high temperatures). Many of these results depend heavily on the pinch technique, as described in The Pinch Technique and its Applications to Non-Abelian Gauge Theories. He has also worked fairly recently on the applications of non-Abelian gauge theories to the early universe, in primordial magnetic fields and baryon asymmetry. Earlier work was in dynamical symmetry breaking, the equivalence theorem and effective potentials for gauge theories. He has also worked in space physics, including the aurora and Earth's ring current.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The Pinch Technique at one loop
2. Advanced pinch technique ¿ still one loop
3. Pinch technique to all orders
4. The pinch technique in the Batalin-Vilkovisky framework
5. The gauge technique
6. Schwinger-Dyson equations in the pinch technique framework
7. Non-perturbative gluon mass and quantum solitons
8. Nexuses, sphalerons, and fractional topological charge
9. A brief summary of d=3 NAGTs
10. The pinch technique for electroweak theory
11. Other applications of the pinch technique
Appendix
Index.