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Context

Algebraic Quantum Field Theory

algebraic quantum field theory (perturbative, on curved spacetimes, homotopical)

Introduction

Concepts

field theory:

Lagrangian field theory

quantization

quantum mechanical system, quantum probability

free field quantization

gauge theories

interacting field quantization

renormalization

Theorems

States and observables

Operator algebra

Local QFT

Perturbative QFT

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  • Günter Scharf


    Quantum Gauge Theories – A True Ghost Story


    Wiley 2001

which applies causal perturbation theory to rigorously construct quantum Yang-Mills theory (quantum chromodynamics and electroweak theory) and quantum gravity as perturbative quantum field theories.

In later editions the title has been changed. The most recent, third edition is

  • Gauge Field Theories: Spin One and Spin Two: 100 Years After General Relativity, Dover, 2016,

with extra chapter 6: Non-geometric general relativity, on inhomogeneous cosmology that is based (it seems) on the article

The analogous discussion of quantum electrodynamics via causal perturbation theory is in

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