This volume covers the proceedings of an international conference held in Oxford in June 2002. In addition to articles arising from the conference, the book also contains the famous as yet unpublished article by Graeme Segal on the Definition of Conformal Field Theories. It is ideal as a view of the
Geometry, Topology and Quantum Field Theory
β Scribed by Pratul Bandyopadhyay (auth.)
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 224
- Series
- Fundamental Theories of Physics 130
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
This is a monograph on geometrical and topological features which arise in quantum field theory. It is well known that when a chiral fermion interacts with a gauge field we have chiral anomaly which corresponds to the fact that divergence of the axial vector current does not vanish. It is observed that this is related to certain topological features associated with the fermion and leads to the realization of the topological origin of fermion number as well as the Berry phase. The role of gauge fields in the quantization procedure has its implications in these topological features of a fermion and helps us to consider a massive fermion as a soliton (skyrrnion). In this formalism chiral anomaly is found to be responsible for mass generation. This has its relevance in electroweak theory where it is observed that weak interaction gauge bosons attain mass topologically. The geometrical feature of a skyrmion also helps us to realize the internal symmetry of hadrons from reflection group. Finally it has been shown that noncommutative geometry where the space time manifold is taken to be X = M x Zz has its relevance in the description of a massive 4 fermion as a skyrmion when the discrete space is considered as the internal space and the symmetry breaking leads to chiral anomaly. In chap. l preliminary mathematical formulations related to the spinor structure have been discussed. In chap.
β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Theory of Spinors....Pages 1-23
Fermions and Topology....Pages 25-70
Electroweak Theory....Pages 71-117
Skyrme Model....Pages 119-142
Geometrical Aspects of a Skyrmion....Pages 143-163
Noncommutative Geometry....Pages 165-203
Back Matter....Pages 205-220
β¦ Subjects
Quantum Physics;Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory;Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons;Differential Geometry;Global Analysis and Analysis on Manifolds
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