Aspects of Symmetry
Selected Erice Lectures

Sidney Coleman (Author)

9780521318273, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 18 February 1988

420 pages
22.8 x 15.5 x 2.7 cm, 0.62 kg

'This book is a classic.' Physics Today

For almost two decades, Sidney Coleman has been giving review lectures on frontier topics in theoretical high-energy physics at the International School of Subnuclear Physics held each year at Erice, Sicily. This volume is a collection of some of the best of these lectures. To this day they have few rivals for clarity of exposition and depth of insight. Although very popular when first published, many of the lectures have been difficult to obtain recently. Graduate students and professionals in high-energy physics will welcome this collection by a master of the field.

Preface
Acknowledgements
1. An introduction to unitary symmetry
2. Soft pions
3. Dilatations
4. Renormalization and symmetry: a review for non-specialists
5. Secret symmetry: an introduction to spontaneous symmetry breakdown and gauge fields
6. Classical lumps and their quantum descendants
7. The uses of instantous
8. 1/N
Appendices
Notes and references.

Subject Areas: Quantum physics [quantum mechanics & quantum field theory PHQ]