The first edition was published in 1986 and the second in 1997, and physicist Muta (president, Fukuyama U.) says for this third he has mostly corrected errors that slipped through to the second. Quantum chromodynamics is a non-Abelian gauge field theory that can describe the strong interactions of fundamental particles, he explains, and he introduces the field to first-year graduate students, introducing gauge theory as a whole at the same time. He also discusses the renormalization group method, the operator-product expansion, physical applications, and infrared divergences. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
