Geometrical and Topological Methods in Gauge Theories

Proceedings of the Canadian Mathematical Society Summer Research Institute McGill University, Montreal September 3-8, 1979
Herausgegeben:Harnad, J. P.; Shnider, S.

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Lecture Notes in Physics 129
• Verlag: Springer / Springer Berlin Heidelberg / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-540-10010-2
• 1980.
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 1980
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 308g
• ISBN-13: 9783540100102
• ISBN-10: 3540100105
• Artikelnr.: 41201395

Inhaltsangabe

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.