PHY 239 Fall 2007
Instructor: Benjamin Grinstein

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Date Material Primary Source More sources
Oct 5 Dilatations, Scale Invariance Dilatations, Coleman, (Erice Lectures)

Callan,  Coleman,  Jackiw, A New improved
energy - momentum tensor.
 Annals Phys. 59:42-73,1970.   
Coleman Jackiw,   Why dilatation generators do not generate
dilatations?
Annals Phys.67:552-598,1971.
Oct 12 Dilatations, .. cont'd
Oct 19 Solitons and Monopoles A.o.S (Coleman) Ch 6.1 -6.3.3 John Preskill, Vortices and Monopoles, in Architecture of fundamental interactions at short distances, P. Ramond and R. Stora, editors, Amsterdam,  North-Holland; New York, N.Y., Elsevier Science Pub. Co., 1987
Oct 26 Fire!
Nov 2 Solitons and Monopoles, cont'd A.o.S (Coleman) Ch  6.3.4-6.3.5 Massey, William S, Algebraic topology : an introduction,  New York : Springer-Verlag, 1987,
Charles Nash and Siddhartha Sen, Topology and geometry for physicists, London, Academic Press,  1983
Nov 9 Anomalies Notes on QCD Jeff Harvey's Lectures on anomalies
Itzykson & Zuber, Quantum Field Theory, Chap 11-5
Peskin & Schroeder, An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory, Ch 19
Nov 16 Anomalies, cont'd
't Hooft, in  Recent Developments in Gauge Theories, Proceedings, Nato Advanced Study Institute Series, Series B, Physics, v59,  p438
Coleman and Grossman, Nucl.Phys.B203:205,1982
Wess and Zumino, Phys. Lett. B37: 95-97, 1971
E. Witten, Nucl.Phys B223:422-432,1983



Nov 23 Thnaksgiving Holiday Go home, take a break, eat turkey
Nov 30 Instantons
A.o.S (Coleman)  Ch  7.1-7.4
Dec 7 Instantons, cont'd A.o.S (Coleman) Ch  7.5-7.6