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Path integrals in quantum field theory

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Book ID
127397816
Year
2002
Tongue
English
Weight
622 KB
Edition
web draft
Category
Library

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โœฆ Synopsis

We discuss the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics and use it to derive the S matrix in terms of Feynman diagrams. We generalize to quantum field theory, and derive the generating functional Z[J] and n-point correlation functions for free scalar field theory.

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