Published 1982
| Version v1
Book
An informal introduction to gauge field theories
Description
In this book, which is based on lectures given at the British Universities Summer School on Theoretical Particle Physics, 1979, the theoretical and physical ideas behind gauge field theories are discussed. The question of symmetry, hidden and manifest, global and local, and especially the relation between local symmetry and dynamics, is considered. Some of the technical aspects of canonical quantisation of gauge fields are explained and some topics related to renormalisation are introduced. (U.K.)
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press.
- Imprint Place
- Cambridge (UK)
- ISBN
- 0 521 24540 0
- Imprint Pagination
- 174 p.
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Country of Input or Organization
- United Kingdom
- INIS RN
- 15000055
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- BIBLIOGRAPHIES; ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERACTIONS; GAUGE INVARIANCE; LAGRANGIAN FIELD THEORY; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; RENORMALIZATION; SYMMETRY; VECTOR FIELDS; WEAK INTERACTIONS; WEINBERG LEPTON MODEL
- Descriptors DEC
- BASIC INTERACTIONS; DOCUMENT TYPES; FIELD THEORIES; INTERACTIONS; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE MODELS; UNIFIED GAUGE MODELS; UNIFIED-FIELD THEORIES