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Masud Chaichian
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Department of High Energy Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki 17, Finland
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Nikolai F. Nelipa
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Institute for Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University, Moscow, USSR
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Introduction
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- Masud Chaichian, Nikolai F. Nelipa
Pages 1-3
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Invariant Lagrangians
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Pages 7-25
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Pages 26-37
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Pages 38-49
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Quantum Theory of Gauge Fields
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Pages 53-78
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Pages 79-106
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Gauge Theory of Electroweak Interactions
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Front Matter
Pages 107-107
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Pages 109-132
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Pages 133-145
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Pages 146-165
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Pages 166-184
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Gauge Theory of Strong Interactions
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Front Matter
Pages 185-185
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Pages 187-206
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Pages 207-219
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Pages 220-244
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Pages 245-265
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Pages 266-288
About this book
In recent years, gauge fields have attracted much attention in elementary par ticle physics. The reason is that great progress has been achieved in solving a number of important problems of field theory and elementary particle physics by means of the quantum theory of gauge fields. This refers, in particular, to constructing unified gauge models and theory of strong interactions between the elementary particles. This book expounds the fundamentals of the quantum theory of gauge fields and its application for constructing unified gauge models and the theory of strong interactions. In writing the book, the authors' aim was three-fold: firstly, to outline the basic ideas underlying the unified gauge models and the theory of strong inter actions; secondly, to discuss the major unified gauge models, the theory of strong interactions and their experimental implications; and, thirdly, to acquaint the reader with a rather special mathematical approach (path-in tegral method) which has proved to be well suited for constructing the quantum theory of gauge fields. Gauge fields are a vigorously developing area. In this book, we have select ed for presentation the more or less traditional and commonly accepted mate rial. There also exist a number of different approaches which are presently being developed. The most important of them are touched upon in the Conclusion.
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of High Energy Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki 17, Finland
Masud Chaichian
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Institute for Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University, Moscow, USSR
Nikolai F. Nelipa