<i>Particles, Sources and Fields</i>

Julian Schwinger, Jeremy Bernstein

Physics Today · 1971 · 563 citations · 0 references

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Abstract

This classic, the first of three volumes, presents techniques that emphasize the unity of high-energy particle physics with electrodynamics, gravitational theory, and many-particle cooperative phenomena. What emerges is a theory intermediate in position between operator field theory and S-matrix theory, which rejects the dogmas of each and gains thereby a calculational ease and intuitiveness that make it a worthy contender to displace the earlier formulations.