Front Cover; An Introduction to Field Quantization; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; PREFACE; CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION; 1. Introductory considerations; 2. Creation and annihilation operators; CHAPTER II. NON-RELATIVISTIC FIELDS; 1. The Schroedinger field; 2. The radiation field; 3. Harmonic lattice vibrations; CHAPTER III. RELATIVISTIC FREE FIELDS; 1. Notation and conventions; 2. Fields with spin 0,1, and 2; 3. Fields with spin 1/2 and 3/2; 4. A general field equation of first order; 5. The Bargmann-Wigner fields; 6. Massless fields; CHAPTER IV. SOME ASPECTS OF LINEAR FIELD EQUATIONS.

1. Conservation laws and the first identity2. The Klein-Gordon divisor and the second identity; CHAPTER V. QUANTIZATION OF RELATIVISTIC FREE FIELDS; 1. Wave functions and their normalization; 2. Quantization-A general theory; 3. Quantization-examples; 4. Quantization of massless fields; CHAPTER VI. TRANSFORMATION PROPERTIES OF FIELD OPERATORS; 1. Lorentz transformations; 2. Uniqueness of generators of inhomogeneous Lorentz transformation; 3. Discrete transformations; 4. Substitution law; CHAPTER VII. AN EXPLICIT CONSTRUCTION OF WAVE FUNCTIONS; 1. A general theory; 2. Examples.