Physics 616, spring 2008

Fields I

Daniel Friedan

The textbook is Peskin and Schroeder, "An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory", Westview Press (1995) ISBN 0-201-50397-2, QC174.45.P465.

The lectures are on Mondays and Thursdays, 10:20 - 11:40am in SEC-202.

There are voluntary extra classes on Fridays, 12:00 - 1:20pm in Serin 372E (conference room), for questions and answers and for elaboration of topics omitted from the lectures and/or the textbook.

Homework

Solutions will be available after the due date for each assignment.

Number Date Due Assignment Solution
1 Feb 04 P&S problem 9.2 pdf
2 Feb 11 P&S problem 9.1 pdf
3 Feb 18 P&S problem 10.1 pdf
4 Feb 28 P&S problem 10.2 pdf
5 Mar 10 P&S problems 10.3, 10.4 pdf
6 Apr 3 P&S problem 11.3 pdf
6 Apr 17 P&S problems 11.2, 12.1, 12.2 pdf


Miscellaneous notes

Date Title
2008.02.22 Note on point-splitting regularization
2008.02.23 Note on proper-time regularization
2008.03.03 Note on calculation of the effective potential
2008.04.10 Note on the C-Z equation for correlation functions
2008.03.27 Lovelace note on problems 10.3,10.4
2008.05.03 Note on the Ricci tensor of the N-1 sphere


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