Specifically designed to introduce graduate students to the functional integration method in contemporary physics as painlessly as possible, the book concentrat

"Quantum Gravitation" approaches the subject from the point of view of Feynman path integrals, which provide a manifestly covariant approach in which fundamenta

Topological restrictions. These are relevant to the understanding of the statistical properties of elementary particles and the entanglement phenomena in polyme

Graduate-level, systematic presentation of path integral approach to calculating transition elements, partition functions, and source functionals. Covers Grassm