Looking for a Book on Relativistic Quantum Mechanics with One-Forms?

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The forum discussion centers on finding a book that introduces relativistic quantum mechanics using one-forms, similar to Schutz's "A First Course in General Relativity." A specific chapter was identified, leading to the discovery of the author, Walczak, through online searches. The chapter in question is the sixth chapter of the book titled "Particle Physics in the LHC Era," published by Oxford University Press. Participants shared techniques for identifying the book and its author, emphasizing the importance of precise search queries.

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Do you know about a good book that introduces relativistic quantum mechanics with one-forms (diferential forms) like the book a first course of general relativity of Schutz does?
 
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cristianbahena said:
Do you know about a good book that introduces relativistic quantum mechanics with one-forms (diferential forms)
Why do you think that relativistic QM can be formulated in terms of one-forms?
 
That's a great deduction! How did you find it?
 
The page format resembled Andrew Steane's relativity text... so I thought it was him.
But I couldn't find it on his homepage ( https://users.physics.ox.ac.uk/~Steane/teaching/lecture_course.html )

I then googled the entire first sentence...
"The aim of this chapter..." and brought up several close matches at Oxford...
and somehow (i can't recall exactly how I found Walczak... i spent a few minutes in my browser history trying to remember what I did this morning.)
If you google that entire first sentence, the third link is
https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0198748558
where Walczak is an author and the chapter above is the 6th chapter of that book.
The homepage of the textbook is
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/particle-physics-in-the-lhc-era-9780198748557
 
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