This invaluable textbook is divided into two parts. The first part includes a detailed discussion on the discrete transformations for the Dirac equation, as well as on the central force problem for the Dirac equation. In the second part, the external field problem is examined; pair production and vacuum polarization leading to charge renormalization are treated in detail.

Relativistic Quantum Mechanics and Introduction to Quantum Field Theory has arisen from a graduate course which the author taught for several years at the University of Alberta to students interested in particle physics and field theory.

Contents:

• Relativistic Quantum Mechanics:
• The Poincaré Group
• Spin 0: The Klein–Gordon Equation
• The Dirac Equation
• Structure of Dirac Particles
• Dirac Equation: Central Potentials
• The Weyl or Neutrino Equation
• Relativistic Quantum Field Theory:
• The Neutral Klein–Gordon Field
• The Charged Klein–Gordon Field
• The Dirac Field
• Asymptotic Fields: LSZ Formulation
• Perturbation Theory

"This book is a well written, concise account of the traditional approach to relativistic quantum theory."

"The short text may serve as an introduction for the beginner who has some knowledge of quantum mechanics."