References (mathphys)

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The following is a list of references for material that may or may not be covered in the Math/Physics Learning Seminar.

Contents

Classical Mechanics and Field Theory

  • Goldstein et al., Classical Mechanics
  • Arnold, Mathematical Methods of Classical Mechanics
  • Sobolev, Partial Differential Equations of Mathematical Physics
  • Evans, Partial Differential Equations
  • Griffiths, Introduction to Electrodynamics
  • Jackson, Classical Electrodynamics
  • Wald, General Relativity
  • Misner, Thorne, and Wheeler, Gravitation

Quantum Mechanics and QFT

  • Bransden and Joachain, Quantum Mechanics
  • Griffiths, Introduction to Quantum Mechanics
  • Weyl, The Theory of Groups and Quantum Mechanics
  • Sakurai, Modern Quantum Mechanics
  • Sakurai, Advanced Quantum Mechanics
  • Peskin and Schroeder, Introduction to Quantum Field Theory
  • Weinberg, The Quantum Theory of Fields
  • Gufstavson and Sigal, Mathematical Concepts of Quantum Mechanics
  • Deligne et al., Quantum Fields and Strings: A Course for Mathematicians
  • Folland, Quantum Field Theory: A Tourist Guide for Mathematicians

Gauge theory

  • Atiyah, Geometry of Yang-Mills Fields
  • Atiyah and Bott, Yang Mills over Riemann Surfaces
  • Faddeev and Slavnov, Gauge Fields
  • Hitchin, Self-duality Equations on a Riemann Surface
  • Atiyah and Hitchin, Geometry and Dynamics of Magnetic Monopoles
  • Witten, Two-dimensional gauge theories revisited
  • Freed and Uhlenbeck, Instantons and Four Manifolds
  • Donaldson and Kronheimer, The Geometry of Four-Manifolds

Symplectic geometry and group actions

  • Guillemin and Sternberg, Symplectic Techniques in Physis
  • Cannas da Silva, Lectures on Symplectic Geometry
  • Kirwan, Cohomology of Quotients in Symplectic and Algebraic Geometry
  • Atiyah and Bott, The moment map and equivariant cohomology
  • Guillemin and Sternberg, Supersymmetry and Equivariant de Rham Theory
  • Mumford, Fogarty, and Kirwan, Geometric Invariant Theory
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