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 Advanced Concepts in Particle and Field Theory
(Cambridge University Press, July 31, 2015, harcover) [ CUP ] [ A ] [ B ] [ FAQ ]

“ There is a crack in everything; that’s how the light gets in. ” —Leonard Cohen

Notation: “p.n” = page n,  “P.n” = paragraph n,  “l.n” = line n,  “S.m.n” = section n of chapter m;
 n > 0 is counted downward/forward,   n < 0 upward/backward.

If you notice any kind of error in the book, please, do let me know!


  p.73, Digression 2.7, l. –4: “ relation ” → “ relations ” (plural)
  p.74, (2.65): insert a missing ℏ on the right-hand side of the inequality
  p.99, l. 1 after (3.58): “ p2=... ” → “ p'2=...”
  p.99, (3.60): “ ..., pi ), where... ” → “ ..., p'i ), where...”
  p.144, l.–1; p.560, l.2: “ Saharov ” → “ Sakharov ” (Western-standard spelling)
  p.183, (5.80a): “ 1/4 εμνρσ... ” → “ 1/8 εμνρσ... ”
  p.225, (6.6e): “...= – (... ” → “ ...= –  c (both locations)   &   “...ℏc... ” → “ ...... (both denominators);
  p.247, l.3 after (6.85): “ momentum ” → “ moment ” (left-most word-fragment, and middle of the row)
  p.325, Digression 9.2: the results are given in the un-normalized basis, (no summation) eμ = eμ/hμ and eμ = eμhμwhere, (hμ)2 = gμμ , where eμ = eμ are the usual unit-vectors; see again in Appendix B.2.
  p.329, l.1 under Eq. (9.45) and subsequently: “ energy-momentum tensor density ” → “ energy-momentum density tensor ”
        (the quantity defined in Eq. (9.45) is a tensor—not a tensor density as defined in Definition B.2 on p.522; its components however are densities in the other sense of the word: they are “some quantity per unit spatial 3D-volume”)
  p.340, Digression 9.5., l.3 after (9.73b): “ 10−127 ” → “ 10−123 ” and “ 83 ” → “ 79 ”
  p.342, (9.81), anti de Sitter branch: Whereas a “flat slicing” analogue of the de Sitter branch can be obtained, this most certainly is not it. Instead, suffice it here to cite the standard global expression “ − c2f(r) dt2 + dr2/ f(r) + dr22 with f(r) = 1 + |ΛAdS|r2/3 ”, and recall that ΛAdS<0
  p.365, l.6–7: “ Dmytro ” → “ Dmitry ”
  p.467, Eq. (A.40o): “ J±J” → “ JJ±
  p.503, Eq. (B.13): multiply the right-hand side in both rows by n!
  p.514, Def. B.6, l.2: “ (p'q') ” → “ (p', q') ” (pair-separating comma)
  p.518, Eq. (B.80c), the 2nd relative sign (multiplying the 3rd term): “” → “ + ”

Additions & Updates:
  p.525, Table C.1 needs the updating additions:
» 2013: François Englert and Peter W. Higgs, “for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles...”
» 2015: Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald, “for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass”
» 2016: David J. Thouless (1/2), F. Duncan M. Haldane (1/4) and J. Michael Kosterlitz (1/4), “for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter”
» 2017: Rainer Weiss (1/2), Barry C. Barish (1/4) and Kip S. Thorne (1/4), “for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves”
» 2020: Roger Penrose (1/2), “for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity”
» 2021: Giorgio Parisi (1/2), “for the discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales”
» 2022: Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger, “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science”

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