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Part 1: Preliminary
Path Integral 101 / Real-Space Propagators / How to Quantize Fermions Self-Consistently / Symmetries, Redundancies, and Noether
Part 2: Wilsonian Renormalization as a Paradigm
Renormalization as Coarse Graining / Running Gauge Couplings / How the Asymptotic Freedom Salvaged Particle Physics QFT / Real-Space Renormalization / Renormalizability is a Hypothesis
Part 3: Symmetries, Geometry, and Topology
From Faddeev-Popov to BRST / Bundles, Spinors, and the Kosmann Lift / Characteristic Classes and Atiyah-Singer Indices / A Lie Algebra Primer / Instantons and Monopoles / When and How the Topology Fails You
Part 4: Continuous Anomalies
Axial Anomalies via Fujikawa / Alvarez-Gaume and Witten / Can Anomalies be Covariant? / Anomaly Descent / Diffeomorphism Anomaly Redux / Anomaly Inflow and Anomaly Matching
Part 5: Discrete Anomalies
Atiyah-Patodi-Singer Indices / Chern-Simons vs. Eta Invariant / Odd Dimensional Discrete Anomalies / Even Dimensional Discrete Anomalies / Discrete Anomaly Inflow and Dai-Freed Theorem
Part 6: Worldsheet vs Spacetime