North-Holland Personal Library: Solitons and Instantons: An Introduction to Solitons and Instantons in Quantum Field Theory (Softcover)

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VERY GOOD: The book is in very good condition, showing only slight signs of use and wear. The pages are clean and the binding is tight.
NOTE: Some British spelling.

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From the back cover: Classical soliton and instanton solutions "are derived for a variety of models and classified by topological indices. The methods are then developed for quantizing solitons to obtain quantum particles. Vacuum tunneling, θ-vacua and the dilute-instanton-gas approximation are described in detail. Other instanton effects related to quark-quark forces, confinement, the U(1) problem and Borel summability are also discussed. The emphasis is on presenting the basic ideas in a simple pedagogical way. Technical tools like functional methods, Grassman integrals, homotopy classification, collective co-ordinates etc. are developed ab initio.

"The presentation of this work is kept at a fairly simple level and ideas are developed through illustrative examples. Techniques not covered in older field theory textbooks, such as functional integral methods, are presented in some detail to the necessary extent. These techniques are important in their own right. Although the book is mainly addressed to particle physicists and quantum field theorists, several portions will be of relevance to other branches of physics, particularly statistical mechanics. These include three chapters devoted to deriving classical soliton and instanton solutions and one on collective co-ordinates, as well as sections devoted to general techniques."

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About the Series: "NORTH-HOLLAND PERSONAL LIBRARY: A series of reasonably priced monographs and contributed volumes intended for the individual physicist and materials scientist."