Noncovariant Gauges in Canonical Formalism

• Main Author: Burnel, Andr.̌ (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 761
• Subjects: Physics.; Mathematical physics.; Quantum theory.; Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory.; Mathematical Methods in Physics.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69921-7

By definition, gauge theories - among the cornerstones of fundamental theoretical physics - involve more degrees of freedom than required by the underlying physics. The unphysical degrees of freedom must be shown not to yield unwarranted effects at every step in the formalism where explicit Lorentz...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Canonical Quantization For Constrained Systems
• Quantization of the Free Electromagnetic Field in General Class III Linear Gauges
• Quantization of the Free Electromagnetic Field in Class II Axial Gauges
• Gauge Fields in Interaction
• Perturbation Theory, Renormalization and all That
• Slavnov-Taylor Identities for Yang-Mills Theory
• Field Theory Without Infinities
• Gauges With a Singular C Matrix
• Conclusion.