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Appendix A - Books

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2012

Tom Banks
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University of California, Santa Cruz and Rutgers University, New Jersey
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This is a brief guide to other books on quantum field theory. The standard modern textbook is An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory, by Peskin and Schroeder [33]. I recommend especially their wonderful Chapter 5, and all of the calculational sections between 16.5 and 18.5, as well as Chapters 20 and 21. Every serious student of QFT should work out the final project on the Coleman–Weinberg potential, which can be found on page 469. Another standard is Weinberg's three-volume opus [131]. Here I recommend the marvelous sections on symmetries and anomalies in Volume II. The technical discussions of perturbative effective field theory are invaluable. The section on the Batalin–Vilkovisky treatment of general gauge equivalences is also useful. Volume I should probably be read after completing a first course on the subject. It presents an interesting but idiosyncratic approach to the logical structure of the field. Volume III on supersymmetry is full of gems. In my opinion, it is flawed by an idiosyncratic notation and a tendency to obscure relatively simple ideas in an attempt to give absolutely general discussions. Finally, let me mention a relatively new book by M. Srednicki [168]. I have not gone through it thoroughly, and I do not agree with the author's ordering of topics, but the pedagogical style of the sections I have read is wonderful. It is clear that everyone in the field will turn to this book for all those nasty little details about minus signs and spinor conventions.

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Modern Quantum Field Theory
A Concise Introduction
, pp. 245 - 246
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2008

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  • Book: Modern Quantum Field Theory
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  • Tom Banks
  • Book: Modern Quantum Field Theory
  • Online publication: 05 June 2012
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511811500.012
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