Derivation and regularization of corrections to propagators and vertices for cubically interacting scalar field theories
Abstract
This thesis, a mainly expository work, attempts to give all the calculational details
for some popular models in scalar quantum eld theory that serve a mostly pedagogical
purpose. Starting with a real scalar eld with a given Lagrangian in classical eld theory,
standard quantization results given in most introductory QFT texts are derived with as
many explicit calculations (which are often left to the reader) as possible. After presenting
this development, we gather speci c calculations that model scattering and decay processes.
In many texts, the author(s) simply gives one or two calculations as an example. Here we
organize several di erent calculations in a single work.
Description
Thesis (M.S.)--Wichita State University, Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Dept. of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics