Feynman Integral Calculus

Smirnov, Vladimir A.

This is a textbook version of my previous book [190]. Problems and solutions have been included, Appendix G has been added, more details have been presented, recent publications on evaluating Feynman integrals have been taken into account and the bibliography has been updated. 1 ThegoalofthebookistodescribeindetailhowFeynmanintegrals canbe evaluatedanalytically.TheproblemofevaluatingLorentz-covariantFeynman integrals over loop momenta originated in the early days of perturbative quantum ?eld theory. Over a span of more than ?fty years, a great variety of methodsforevaluatingFeynmanintegralshasbeendeveloped.Mostpowerful modern methods are described in this book. Iunderstandthatifanotherperson–inparticularoneactivelyinvolvedin developing methods for Feynman integral evaluation – wrote a book on this subject, he or she would probably concentrate on some other methods and would rank the methods as most important and less important in a di?erent order. I believe, however, that my choice is reasonable. At least I have tried to concentrate on the methods that have been used recently in the most sophisticated calculations, in which world records in the Feynman integral ‘sport’ were achieved.

Details

Published by: Springer

Publication Date: 2006-08-02

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9783540306108

DOI: 10.1007/3-540-30611-0

Dimensions: 235cm x155cm

Pages: 287