Quantum Field Theory: Perspective and Prospective [Hardcover]

It has been said that `String theorists talk to string theorists and everyone else wonders what they are saying'. This book will be a great help to those researchers who are challenged by modern quantum field theory.
Quantum field theory experienced a renaissance in the late 1960s. Here, participants in the Les Houches sessions of 1970/75, now key players in quantum field theory and its many impacts, assess developments in their field of interest and provide guidance to young researchers challenged by these developments, but overwhelmed by their complexities.
The book is not a textbook on string theory, rather it is a complement to Polchinski's book on string theory. It is a survey of current problems which have their origin in quantum field theory.Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, Les Houches, France, 15-26 June 1998It has been said that `String theorists talk to string theorists and everyone else wonders what they are saying'. This book will be a great help to those researchers who are challenged by modern quantum field theory.
Quantum field theory experienced a renaissance in the late 1960s. Here, participants in the Les Houches sessions of 1970/75, now key players in quantum field theory and its many impacts, assess developments in their field of interest and provide guidance to young researchers challenged by these developments, but overwhelmed by their complexities.
The book is not a textbook on string theory, rather it is a complement to Polchinski's book on string theory. It is a survey of current problems which have their origin in quantum field theory.Preface. List of Participants. Correlation Functions through Variational Methods; R. Balian. Reader's Guide to String Duality and Matrix Theory; T. Banks. An Introduction to Equivariant Cohomology; R. Bott. Hopf Algebras, Renormalization and Noncommutative Geometry; A. Connes, D. Kreimer. The Peierls Bracket; B. DeWilÃâ