Guide to the references and resource listings

The following bibliography is as comprehensive a guide as I can make it, but is almost certainly not exhaustive. Suggestions for improvement or missing information always welcome. The organisational structure is as follows:

• Material is first divided into five types:
  • introductory and pedagogical resources (textbooks and review papers);
  • automated perturbation theory routines;
  • results presented in journal and arXiv articles;
  • slides and talks available online;
  • theses available online.
  The bulk of the bibliography is concerned with the third of these types, the published results.
• Results are further organised according to:
  • "standard lattice perturbation theory for QCD", organised according to action type:
  • quenched or pure gauge theory results;
  • fermionic results;
  • other methods for extracting peturbative results and applications beyond QCD:
  • high-β results;
  • stochastic perturbation theory results;
  • results from beyond QCD at zero temperature.
• Fermionic results are then split according to the fermionic action used:
  • Wilson;
  • Wilson-like (e.g. clover);
  • Staggered;
  • Relativistic heavy quarks;
  • NRQCD;
  • HQET;
  Mixed action calculations, such as (to pick a not entirely arbitrary example) arXiv:1210.7016, are organised as best as possible under both actions. Should you need a brief reminder of the taxonomy of the fermion zoo, then the inimicable Life on the lattice has a nice identification guide.
• Multi-loop calculations are indicated within each action type heading.
• Where there are a large number of references in a given section, the lists are further divided by decade (or even by five year intervals). Not all sections are divided in this way. The decision of whether or not the references should be further subdivided by decade is a matter of personal preference. This choice is arbitrary and does not reflect anything of fundamental import.

The organisation does not presume to be anything like the last word in carving up lattice perturbation theory, but hopefully is somewhat useful in allowing you to find the resources you need.

Early lattice work was often perturbative or included lattice perturbation theory, owing to the lack of computational resources and the young state of the field.  Coverage of the earliest work is currently somewhat limited, but will improve with age.