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In this chapter we introduce the notion of quantum field on a technical level. This chapter is the end of the introductory material; it also can be regarded as the basic background for Part II. Readers already familiar with quantum theory and statistical mechanics may start here.
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[Bjorken and Drell, 1964-5], [Kastler, 1961], [Schweber, 1961], [Bogoliubov and Shirkov, 1959], [Thirring, 1958], [Itzykson and Zuber, 1980].
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Glimm, J., Jaffe, A. (1987). Field Theory. In: Quantum Physics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4728-9_6
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