Aspects of Symmetry

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Aspects of Symmetry is a highly influential collection of Sidney Coleman’s lectures that explores deep principles and applications of symmetry in quantum field theory and particle physics.

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instanceOf lecture collection
non-fiction book
physics book
author Sidney Coleman NERFINISHED
countryOfPublication United Kingdom
field particle physics
quantum field theory
theoretical physics
hasPart lecture on 1/N expansion
lecture on CP violation
lecture on Goldstone bosons
lecture on anomalies
lecture on applications of symmetry to electromagnetic interactions
lecture on applications of symmetry to strong interactions
lecture on applications of symmetry to weak interactions
lecture on conformal invariance
lecture on gauge invariance
lecture on instantons
lecture on instantons in gauge theories
lecture on instantons in quantum mechanics
lecture on large-order behavior in perturbation theory
lecture on non-abelian gauge theories
lecture on path integrals
lecture on renormalization
lecture on solitons and topological defects
lecture on spontaneous symmetry breaking
lecture on symmetry and conservation laws
lecture on symmetry principles in quantum field theory
lecture on the 1/N expansion in quantum field theory
lecture on the Higgs mechanism
lecture on the quark model and hadron physics
lecture on the role of symmetry in particle classification
influenced generations of theoretical physicists
language English
notableFor clear and insightful exposition of symmetry principles
historical and conceptual perspective on particle physics
publicationYear 1985
publisher Cambridge University Press NERFINISHED
targetAudience graduate students in physics
researchers in theoretical physics
topic anomalies in quantum field theory
global symmetries
local gauge symmetries
non-perturbative methods in quantum field theory
spontaneous symmetry breaking
symmetry in quantum field theory
topological effects in field theory
usedAs graduate-level textbook

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