Notes from Sidney Coleman's Physics 253a

Abstract

These notes were taken by Brian Hill during Sidney Coleman's lectures on Quantum Field Theory (Physics 253), given at Harvard University in Fall semester of the 1986-1987 academic year. They were recently typeset and edited by Yuan-Sen Ting and Bryan Gin-ge Chen. Although most of topics in the second part of the course (Physics 253b) were assembled and published in Coleman's book "Aspects of Symmetry", these notes remain the principal source for the Physics 253a materials. [See also http://www.physics.harvard.edu/about/Phys253.html for a video version of the course given in 1975-1976. ]

28 lectures and 335 pages, posted on the 25th anniversary. Please contact Yuan-Sen Ting ([email protected]), Bryan Gin-ge Chen ([email protected]) and Richard Sohn ([email protected]) if you have any questions or comments

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