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An innovative new treatment of particle physics using quantum gauge theory as its basis If regarded as operator theories, ghost fields play a very important role in quantum gauge theory, which forms the basis of modern particle physics. The author argues that all known forces in nature-electromagnetism, weak and strong forces, and gravity-follow in a unique way from the basic principle of quantum gauge invariance. Using that as a starting point, this volume discusses gauge theories as quantum theories, as part of a streamlined modern approach. The simplicity of using only this one method throughout the book allows the reader a clear understanding of the mathematical structure of nature, while this modern and mathematically well-defined approach elucidates the standard theory of particle physics without overburdening the reader with the full range of various ideas and methods. Though the subject matter requires a basic knowledge of quantum mechanics, the book’s unprecedented and uncomplicated coverage will offer readers little difficulty. This revolutionary volume is suitable for graduate students and researchers alike and includes a completely new treatment of gravity as well as important new ideas on massive gauge fields.

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Editorial Reviews: Review “Scharf…begins with the basic properties of free fields, then turns to constructing the S-matrix by causal perturbation theory, formulating gauge invariance in terms of the occasions of Tn, and imposes perturbative gauge invariance.” (SciTech Book News Vol. 25, No. 2 June 2001) From the Back Cover An innovative new treatment of particle physics using quantum gauge theory as its basis If regarded as operator theories, ghost fields play a very important role in quantum gauge theory, which forms the basis of modern particle physics. The author argues that all known forces in nature-electromagnetism, weak and strong forces, and gravity-follow in a unique way from the basic principle of quantum gauge invariance. Using that as a starting point, this volume discusses gauge theories as quantum theories, as part of a streamlined modern approach. The simplicity of using only this one method throughout the book allows the reader a clear understanding of the mathematical structure of nature, while this modern and mathematically well-defined approach elucidates the standard theory of particle physics without overburdening the reader with the full range of various ideas and methods. Though the subject matter requires a basic knowledge of quantum mechanics, the book’s unprecedented and uncomplicated coverage will offer readers little difficulty. This revolutionary volume is suitable for graduate students and researchers alike and includes a completely new treatment of gravity as well as important new ideas on massive gauge fields.

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⭐Common textbooks on quantum (gauge) theories usually refer to ‘renormalization’ as to be essential for the physical interpretation of these theories. prof. scharf gives like in his first book (finite quantum electrodynmaics) a unique but mathematical consistent formulation of the matter. no undefined nor infinite quantities appear. instead only finite ‘normalization’ constants have to be used as consequences of ambiguities within the ‘splitting’-procedure of distributions.a clear description then is given – without refering to neither the canonical nor the path-integral formalism – how to ‘translate’ the clasical gauge-freedom of the vector-potential to quantum fields. here the well-known ‘ghost-fields'(Geisterfelder in german) appear.the author adds short but elegant discussions of massless (pure gluon-interaction) and massive (standard-model) gauge-fields. in a last chapter even spin-2 fields necessary for quantum-gravitation are presented.i hope that this book will serve as a bridge between the various ‘phenomenological’ descriptions of the matter given in most textbooks and the more mathematical ones which in most cases are hard to accees for ordinary physicists.A.P. SchaffarczykUniversity of Applied SciencesKiel, Germany

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