From random walks to random matrices : selected topics in modern theoretical physics / Jean Zinn-Justin.

This text presents a collection of short, self-contained introductions to important topics in modern theoretical physics, as presented at universities worldwide in seminars (some in colloquium style) and short courses.

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Main Author: Zinn-Justin, Jean (Author)
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Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Series:Oxford graduate texts.
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505 0 |a The random walk: universality and continuum limit -- Functional integration: from path to field integrals -- The essential role of functional integrals in modern physics -- From infinites in quantum electrodynamics to the general renormalization group -- Renormalization group: from a general concept to numbers -- Critical phenomena: the field theory approach -- Stability of renormalization group fixed points and decay of correlations -- Quantum field theory: an effective theory -- The non-perturbative renormalization group -- O(N) vector model in the ordered phase: Goldstone modes -- Gauge invariance and gauge fixing -- The Higgs boson: a major discovery and a problem -- Quantum chromodynamics: a non-Abelian gauge theory -- From BRST symmetry to the Zinn-Justin equation -- Quantum field theory: asymptotic safety -- Symmetries: from classical to quantum field theories -- Quantum anomalies: a few physics applications -- Periodic semi-classical vacuum, instantons and anomalies 
505 0 |a Field theory in a finite geometry: finite size scaling -- The weakly interacting Bose gas at the critical temperature -- Quantum field theory at finite temperature -- From random walk to critical dynamics -- Field theory: perturbative expansion and summation methods -- Hyper-asymptotic expansions and instantons -- Renormalization group approach to matrix models -- Bibliography -- Index. 
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