Syllabus

• Solitons in 2D (kink), 3D (vortices), 4D (monopoles)
• Homotopy groups for pedestrians
• The U(1) problem and the strong CP problem
• Anomalies
• Instantons and Anomalies
• Gravity and QFT: Unruh, Hawking etc

Lectures

Monday ??  (theory library, PH3343)
Thursday ??(theory library, PH3343)

Exercises 

Friday ??  (Hilbert Raum, PH1141) 

Prerequisites:

QFT1 and QFT2, GR for the 2nd part

If your QFT course didn't cover path integrals, functional formalism or non-Abelian gauge theories, I suggest to read Anthony Zee's "Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell" for a gentle introduction.  

Literature:

S. Weinberg - Quantum Field Theory (1 & 2)     
Rajamaran - Solitons and Instantons
Shifmann - Advanced Topics in Quantum Field Theory
Coleman - Aspects of Symmetry
Preskill - Lecture notes (on his Caltech website)
Schwartz - Quantum Field Theory and the Standard Model 

Lecture Notes

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