Selected Topics in Field Quantization: Volume 6 of Pauli Lectures on Physics Pauli WolfgangPaperback

Foreword by Victor F. Quantization of the Electron-Positron Field 1. WeisskopfPreface by the Editor1.

Quantization of the harmonic oscillator 3. The Heisenberg and interaction representations 2. Second quantization for spin-1/2 particles 4.

Sign of the energy; hole theory 5. Construction of the invariant functions 6. Charge-conjugated quantities2.

Response to an External Field: Charge Renormalization 7. Vacuum expectation values of expressions bilinear in the current 8. Vacuum polarization in an external field 9.

Particles with zero spin 10. Evaluation of the Kernals K and L 11. "The "causal" kernels Kcµv and Lcµv" 12.

Impossibility of canceling the self-charge3. "Quantization of Free Fields: Spin 0 and 1/2, Quantum Electrodynamics" 13. The invariant functions 14.

"Quantization of force-free, uncharged, spin-0 fields" 15. Quantum electrodynamics in vacuum 16. Quantum electrodynamics in canonical notation 17.

Various representations 18. Theory of positrons (spin-1/2 particles)4. Interacting Fields: Interaction Representation and S-Matrix 19.

Electrons interacting with the electromagnetic field 20. Charged particles with zero spin 21. The interaction representation 22.

Dyson's integration method 23. The P* product for spin-zero5. Heisenberg Representation: S-Matrix and Charge Renormalization 24.

The S-matrix and the Heisenberg representation 25. Renormalized fields in the Heisenberg representation6. The S-Matrix: Applications 26.

The relation between the S-matrix and the cross-section 27. An application of the Dyson formalism: Moller scattering 28. Discussion of the Dc function 29.

The electron self-energy in an external homogeneous electromagnetic field7. Feynman's Approach to Quantum Electrodynamics 30. The path integral methodSupplementary BibliographyAppendix.

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