Corrections to  Second Edition, 4th revision (Sept 2022)   of

Student Friendly Quantum Field Theory

 

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Significant Corrections (may impact learning process)

 

 

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Chap

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Significant Correction

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171

6

Sept 19, 2022

(6-22): Insert a minus sign after “Mk =” and note that the last relation for Qk is valid for v << 1. For v a significant fraction of the speed of light 1, and for more insight on (6-22), see www.quantumfieldtheory.info/Spinor_Lorentz_transf.pdf and the references in the footnote on this page 171.

Anthony Soong

247

8

Nov 27, 2023

Fig. 8-13: The left diagram should have the direction of the top arrow reversed, so it is an incoming positron, not an electron.

Glenn Rowe

415-416

16

Nov 15, 2022

Pedagogic aid

See pgs 415-416 additions.

Jack Freinhar

475

17

Jan 20, 2023

Pedagogic aid

Line above (17-154): After “and”, add “the trace of the identity matrix in spinor space is 4, so we get”

Jack Freinhar

521

Index

Oct 5, 2023

After “contraction, as propagator, equal times contraction, 203, 208” add “, 247”.

 

526

Index

Oct 5, 2023

Just above “target stationary system”, insert “tadpole diagram, 247”

 

 

 

 

 

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Minor Corrections (should not impact learning process)

 

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Chap

Date Posted

Minor Correction

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2

1

Aug 12, 2023

9th line: change “an muon” to - a muon -

David Lear

71

3

Sept 26, 2022

3rd paragraph, 3rd line: after “field”, insert “operator”

 

140

5

Oct 5, 2023

3 lines above (5-31), delete comma after “Knowing that,”

 

195

7

Oct 5, 2023

Page number on upper right is partially blanked out.

 

272

10

Sept 26, 2022

3rd paragraph, 1st line: remove underlining on “Fuller-Davies-Unruh effect”.

 

285b to 285c

10

Oct 5, 2023

On the upper right corner of pg 285a, remove “285b”. On the next page, at the top, remove “285c” and “287”. On that page, on the upper right corner, insert “285b”. On the page after that, in the upper left corner, change “288” to “285c”.

 

308

12

Sept 26, 2022

2nd line up from bottom: underline “bn is a “constant”

 

322

13

Dec 22, 2023

The quote below the chapter title is now thought by most scholars to have been written, not by Edward Dyer, but by Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, whom I personally have come to believe is also the actual author of the works attributed to William Shakespeare.

 

417

16

Nov 7, 2022

Delete first sentence after (16-54).

 

485

17

Aug 12, 2023

4th row in chart, step 11a, 2nd column: “M|2” should be - |M|2.-

David Lear

 

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