Physics Quest: Understanding Relativistic Quantum Field Theory
by Hans de Vries
Publisher: Physics-Quest.org 2013
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From the table of contents: Relativistic foundations of light and matter Fields; Advanced treatment of the EM field; The relativistic matter wave equations; Foundations of Quantum Electro Dynamics; Non Abelian gauge theories.
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