Axiomatic QFT text?

pellman · Dec 29, 2014

I have started reading PCT, Spin and Statistics, and All That. Are there any more recent texts that I should be looking at instead?

DrDu · Dec 29, 2014

R. Haag, Local quantum physics, is a classic.

pellman · Dec 29, 2014

DrDu said: ↑

R. Haag, Local quantum physics, is a classic.

Thanks! Got it on order.

dextercioby · Dec 29, 2014

There are usually 3 texts: Haag's is the most recent and emphasizes the algebraic C*/W* approach (the first 100 pages include the standard approach) to which he's one of the founding fathers. The natural follow-up to <PCT, Spin and Statistics, and All That> is Bogolubov's et al. text of 1975: https://www.amazon.com/Introduction...UTF8&qid=1419890834&sr=1-7&keywords=Bogolubov which is hard to get, but may be available in a good library.

pellman · Dec 29, 2014

dextercioby said: ↑

There are usually 3 texts: Haag's is the most recent and emphasizes the algebraic C*/W* approach. The natural follow-up to <PCT, Spin and Statistics, and All That> is Bogolubov's et al. text of 1975: https://www.amazon.com/Introduction...UTF8&qid=1419890834&sr=1-7&keywords=Bogolubov which is hard to get, but may be available in a good library.

Yep! I found these three books referenced elsewhere after I posted the question. $199? I'm getting it through interlibrary loan. ;) Thanks!

dextercioby · Dec 29, 2014

OK, I just skimmed again on Amazon and saw this new (2013) text by Derezinski: https://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-...d_sim_b_3?ie=UTF8&refRID=1KXB3WAZZ1N0375BVFBC

From the TOC it looks promising. :)