Path Integrals and Anomalies in Curved Space

Fiorenzo Bastianelli is Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Bologna. Peter van Nieuwenhuizen is Distinguished Professor of Physics at SUNY at Stony Brook. He received the Dirac Medal in 1993 for the discovery of Supergravity.

• Preface; Part I. Path Integrals for Quantum Mechanics in Curved Space: 1. Introduction to path integrals; 2. Time slicing; 3. Mode regularization; 4. Dimensional regularization; Part II. Applications to Anomalies: 5. Introduction to anomalies; 6. Chiral anomalies from susy quantum fields; 7. Trace anomalies from ordinary and susy quantum mechanics; 8. Conclusions and summary; Appendices A-F; References; Index.

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