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目錄:
Preface to the First Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
Convention,Notation,and Units
Part 1:Motivation and Foundation
1.Who Needs It?
1.2 Path Integral Formulation of Quantum Physics
1.3 From Mattress to Field
1.4 From Field to Particle to Force
1.5 Coulomb and Newton:Repulsion and Attractior
1.6 Inverse Square Law and the Floatin9 3一Brane
1.7 Feynman Diagrams
1.8 Quantizing Canonically
1.9 Disturbing the Vacuum
1.10 Symmetry
1.11 Field Theory in Curved Spacetime
1.12 Field Theory Redux
Part 2:Dirac and the Spinor
11.1 The Dirac Equation
11.2 Quantizing the Dirac Field
11.3 Lorentz Group and Weyl Spinors
11.4 Spin.Statistics Connection
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Part 3:Renormalization and Gauge Invariance
Part 4:Symmety and Symmetry Breaking
Part 5:Field Theory and Collective Phenomena
Part 6:Field Theory and Condensed Matter
Part 7:Grand Unification
Part 8:Gravity and Beyond
Part N