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The Pinch Technique and Its Applications to Non-abelian Gauge Theories
John M. Cornwall
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Description for The Pinch Technique and Its Applications to Non-abelian Gauge Theories
Hardback. Describes the Pinch Technique for constructing Green's functions for elementary particle theorists and graduate students. Series: Cambridge Monographs on Particle Physics, Nuclear Physics & Cosmology. Num Pages: 304 pages, 73 b/w illus. BIC Classification: PHN; PHP; PHQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 247 x 174 x 20. Weight in Grams: 730.
Non-Abelian gauge theories, such as quantum chromodynamics (QCD) or electroweak theory, are best studied with the aid of Green's functions that are gauge-invariant off-shell, but unlike for the photon in quantum electrodynamics, conventional graphical constructions fail. The Pinch Technique provides a systematic framework for constructing such Green's functions, and has many useful applications. Beginning with elementary one-loop examples, this book goes on to extend the method to all orders, showing that the Pinch Technique is equivalent to calculations in the background field Feynman gauge. The Pinch Technique Schwinger-Dyson equations are derived, and used to show how a dynamical gluon mass ... Read more
Non-Abelian gauge theories, such as quantum chromodynamics (QCD) or electroweak theory, are best studied with the aid of Green's functions that are gauge-invariant off-shell, but unlike for the photon in quantum electrodynamics, conventional graphical constructions fail. The Pinch Technique provides a systematic framework for constructing such Green's functions, and has many useful applications. Beginning with elementary one-loop examples, this book goes on to extend the method to all orders, showing that the Pinch Technique is equivalent to calculations in the background field Feynman gauge. The Pinch Technique Schwinger-Dyson equations are derived, and used to show how a dynamical gluon mass ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Series
Cambridge Monographs on Particle Physics, Nuclear Physics & Cosmology
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521437523
SKU
V9780521437523
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About John M. Cornwall
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 ... Read more
Reviews for The Pinch Technique and Its Applications to Non-abelian Gauge Theories
"The authors are authorities in the field. Cornwall is the person who introduced the pinch techniques in the late 1970's; Papavassiliou and Binosi did most of their research in this field. Nobody knows this matter better than the authors." Giuseppe Nardelli, Mathematical Reviews