Quantum Field Theory I

Course Information

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This course constitutes the first part of a two-semester introduction to Quantum Field Theory. The topics covered or mentioned are:

Canonical quantization of scalar fields
- Classical field theory in Lagrange and Hamilton formalisms
- Canonical quantization
- Differently time-ordered propagators
- Interactions
- S-matrix
- Green's functions
- LSZ-reduction
- Perturbation theory
Path integral quantization of scalar fields
- Path integral in quantum mechanics
- Wick's theorem
- Schwinger-Dyson equations and generating functionals
Renormalization
- Power counting
- Regularization
- Bare and renormalized Green's functions
- Renormalization group