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An Informal Introduction to Gauge Field Theories

B. R. Martin

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I J R Aitchison 1982 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press ix + 174 pp price £12.50 Over the last decade or so, field theories have re-emerged as the principal theoretical tools for understanding the phenomena of elementary particle physics, and as a result many books on field theory have recently been published. This one deals exclusively with gauge field theories (all theories of current physical interest are of this type) and assumes that the reader has a background knowledge of conventional quantum field theory.

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I J R Aitchison 1982 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press ix + 174 pp price £12.50 Over the last decade or so, field theories have re-emerged as the principal theoretical tools for understanding the phenomena of elementary particle physics, and as a result many books on field theory have recently been published. This one deals exclusively with gauge field theories (all theories of current physical interest are of this type) and assumes that the reader has a background knowledge of conventional quantum field theory.

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I J R Aitchison 1982 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press ix + 174 pp price £12.50 Over the last decade or so, field theories have re-emerged as the principal theoretical tools for understanding the phenomena of elementary particle physics, and as a result many books on field theory have recently been published. This one deals exclusively with gauge field theories (all theories of current physical interest are of this type) and assumes that the reader has a background knowledge of conventional quantum field theory.

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