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Front Cover; Quantum Electrodynamics; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1: THE GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF QUANTUM THEORY; 1. The Postulates of Quantum Theory; 2. Symmetries; 3. Canonical Quantization; Chapter 2: NON-RELATIVISTIC QUANTUM MECHANICS; 4. The Quantum Mechanics of a Particle; 5. The Many-Particle System; Chapter 3: THE CLASSICAL THEORY OF THE ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; 6. The Tensor Description of the Electromagnetic Field and the Field Equations; 7. Canonical Formalism for the Electromagnetic Field; 8. The Electromagnetic Field with Sources.
9. The Maxwelhan FieldChapter 4: THE QUANTUM THEORY OF THE ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; 10. Canonical Quantization of the Electromagnetic Field; 11. Quantization of the Free Maxwellian Field; 12. The Interaction of the Quantum Electromagnetic Field with External Sources; 13. The Formulation of the Quantum Theory of the Maxwellian Field with the Aid of Potentials; 14. The Proca Theory; 15. The Infrared Catastrophe; Chapter 5: RELATIVISTIC QUANTUM MECHANICS OF ELECTRONS; 16. The Dirac Equation and the Symmetries of Its Solutions ... ; 17. Electron Scattering in the Electromagnetic Field.
18. Electron Field OperatorsChapter 6: THE FORMULATION OF QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS; 19. The General Postulates of Quantum Electrodynamics; 20. Perturbation Theory and Feynman Diagrams; 21. Photon Processes; 22. Electron-Photon Processes; Chapter 7: RENORMALIZATION THEORY; 23. The Necessity for Renormalization; 24. Equations for Renormalized Propagators; 25. Renormalized Perturbation Theory; Chapter 8: APPLICATIONS OF QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS; 26. Two-Particle Collisions; 27. Non-linear Effects in Quantum Electrodynamics; 28. The Electron in a Static Electromagnetic Field.
29. The Limits of Applicability of Quantum Electrodynamics . . .Concluding Remarks; Appendices; Appendix A: Hilbert Space; Appendix B: Chronological and Normal Products; Appendk C: Functional Differentiation; Appendix D : The Poincaré Group; Appendix E: Green's Functions; Appendix F: The Symmetrie Energy-Momentum Tensor; Appendix G: Evaluation of Some Poisson Brackets; Appendix H: Some Operator Identities; Appendix I: Spinors; Appendix J: The Properties of Solutions of the Dirac Equations; Appendix K: Regularization; Appendix L: Methods of Calculating Integrals over Momentum Space.
Appendix M: Representation of the S Matrix as a Double Limit of the PropagatorREFERENCES; INDEX OF SYMBOLS; SUBJECT INDEX; OTHER TITLES IN THE SERIES IN NATURAL PHILOSOPHY.
by Iwo Białynicki-Birula and Zofia Białynicka-Birula ; translated from the Polish by Eugene Lepa.
Translation of: Elektrodynamika kwantowa.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 527-534) and index.
International series of monographs in natural philosophy ; v. 70