Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction: Why the pinch technique?; 1 The pinch technique at one loop; 2 Advanced pinch technique: Still one loop; 3 Pinch technique to all orders; 4 The pinch technique in the Batalin-Vilkovisky framework; 5 The gauge technique; 6 Schwinger-Dyson equations in the pinch technique framework; 7 Nonperturbative gluon mass and quantum solitons; 8 Nexuses, sphalerons, and fractional topological charge; 9 A brief summary of d=3 NAGTs; 10 The pinch technique for electroweak theory
11 Other applications of the pinch techniqueAppendix 1: Feynman rules; Index
Summary
Describes the Pinch Technique for constructing Green's functions for elementary particle theorists and graduate students
