Geometrical and Topological Methods in Gauge Theories

Proceedings of the Canadian Mathematical Society Summer Research Institute McGill University, Montreal September 3-8, 1979

172 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Physical effects of instantons.- Some aspects of instantons.- The interpretation of Higgs fields as Yang Mills fields.- Topological and phenomenological aspects of gravity and supergravity.- Bifurcation and stability in Yang-Mills theory with sources.- On the long-range interaction of topologically charged monopoles.- Interaction of superconducting vortices.- On groups of gauge transformations.- Construction of gauge fields from initial data.- Some solutions of the Einstein-Yang-Mills equations.- Some invariant solutions to the Yang-Mills equations in the presence of scalar fields in Minkowski space.- Graded Riemannian geometry and graded fibre bundles, a context for local super-gauge theories.- Metric and connection theories of gravity: The gauge theories of spacetime symmetry.

• Reihe: Lecture Notes in Physics
• Themen: Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften Physik Mathematische / Computergestützte / Theoretische Physik
• ISBN: 9783540100102
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.06.1980
• Größe: 244 x 170 mm
• Verlag: Springer
• Herausgegeben von: S. Shnider, J. P. Harnad