Aspects of Symmetry: Selected Erice Lectures of Sidney Coleman 0521267064, 9780521267069, 9780511565045, 0511565046, 0-521-31827-0

This collection of review lectures on topics in theoretical high energy physics has few rivals for clarity of exposition

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Aspects of Symmetry: Selected Erice Lectures of Sidney Coleman
 0521267064, 9780521267069, 9780511565045, 0511565046, 0-521-31827-0

Table of contents :
Content: Preface
Acknowledgements
1. An introduction to unitary symmetry
2. Soft pions
3. Dilatations
4. Renormalization and symmetry: a review for non-specialists
5. Secret symmetry: an introduction to spontaneous symmetry breakdown and gauge fields
6. Classical lumps and their quantum descendants
7. The uses of instantous
8. 1/N
Appendices
Notes and references.

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