Theory and Applications of Instanton Calculations / / M. B. Paranjape.

Drawing inspiration from Sidney Coleman's Erice lectures, this volume provides an accessible, detailed introduction to instanton methods and their many applications, as a valuable resource for graduate students in physics. This title, first published in 2017, has been reissued as an Open Access...

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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, England : : Cambridge University Press,, [2022]
©2018
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiv, 309 pages)
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