Table of Contents

Preface
1: Introduction
2: Differential geometry, topology and fibre bundles
3: Path integrals, FP method and BRS transformation
4: Anomalies in QFT
5: Path integral and anomaly
6: Physics in terms of differential forms
7: Chern-Simons form, homotopy operator and anomaly
8: Consistent anomaly
9: Stora-Zumino chain of descent equations
10: Covariant anomaly
11: Index and anomaly
12: Gravitation
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Dr R.A. Bertlmann, Professor of Physics, Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Vienna, Austria.

Reviews

A comprehensive monograph on anomalies has long been missing - Bertlmann's book thus represents a highly desirable filling of the gap ... Bertlmann's book can be warmly recommended to Ph.D. students, lecturers and researchers working in the quantum field theory and mathematical physics, since its contents are unique within the existing literature and cover, in an essential way, the development of modern methods in this area. EMS It is essentially self-contained and thus deserves to be called a textbook. Both mathematicians and physicists can learn from this volume. CERN Courier