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Sunday, November 21, 2004

FIELDS


FIELDS


What makes it different



  • It's free.
  • It's fast. You can download it from arXiv.org or its mirrors, just
    like preprints, without a trip to the library or bookstore or waiting for an
    order from the publisher.
  • It's electronic. You can print it, but the PDF version has many advantages, like:


  • Download it at work, home, etc. (or carry it on a CD), rather
    than carrying a book or printing multiple copies.
  • Get updates just as quickly, rather than printing yet again.
  • It has the usual Web links, so you can get the referenced papers just as
    easily.
  • It has a separate "outline" window containing a table of contents on
    which you can click to take the main window to that item.
  • You can electronically search (do a "find" on) the text.
  • Save trees (and ink).
  • Theft is not a problem.
  • No wear or tear.
  • No paper cuts.

  • It covers many recent topics at an introductory yet nontrivial level, such as:

    • supersymmetry
    • general relativity
    • supergravity
    • strings

  • It introduces many topics not appearing in other textbooks, including:

    • 1/N expansion (color ordering) in QCD, including relation to random
      worldsheets
    • spacecone (spinor helicity), including explicit calculations of 4- and
      5-point S-matrices in Yang-Mills
    • many useful gauges, such as Gervais-Neveu, Nielsen-Kallosh, unitary
      lightcone, and even string gauges in gravity
    • finite N=1 supersymmetric theories

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