Dawning of Gauge Theory (eBook)

Lochlainn O'Raifeartaigh (Autor)

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2020
272 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-21511-2 (ISBN)

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During the course of this century, gauge invariance has slowly emerged from being an incidental symmetry of electromagnetism to being a fundamental geometrical principle underlying the four known fundamental physical interactions. The development has been in two stages. In the first stage (1916-1956) the geometrical significance of gauge-invariance gradually came to be appreciated and the original abelian gauge-invariance of electromagnetism was generalized to non-abelian gauge invariance. In the second stage (1960-1975) it was found that, contrary to first appearances, the non-abelian gauge-theories provided exactly the framework that was needed to describe the nuclear interactions (both weak and strong) and thus provided a universal framework for describing all known fundamental interactions. In this work, Lochlainn O'Raifeartaigh describes the former phase. O'Raifeartaigh first illustrates how gravitational theory and quantum mechanics played crucial roles in the reassessment of gauge theory as a geometric principle and as a framework for describing both electromagnetism and gravitation. He then describes how the abelian electromagnetic gauge-theory was generalized to its present non-abelian form. The development is illustrated by including a selection of relevant articles, many of them appearing here for the first time in English, notably by Weyl, Schrodinger, Klein, and London in the pre-war years, and by Pauli, Shaw, Yang-Mills, and Utiyama after the war. The articles illustrate that the reassessment of gauge-theory, due in a large measure to Weyl, constituted a major philosophical as well as technical advance.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.7.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Series in Physics
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Series in Physics
• Zusatzinfo: 2 line illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Angewandte Physik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Thermodynamik
• Schlagworte: action-density • Action (physics) • Aharonov–Bohm effect • Angular momentum • antisymmetric tensor • Atomic clock • Axiom • Balmer spectrum • Canonical commutation relation • Cartan gravitation • Charge conjugation • classical electromagnetism • Classical Field Theory • classical mechanics • conservation law • conservation of isotopic • Constants • Constructive Quantum Field Theory • Continuity equation • Contorsion tensor • coordinate system • coupling constant • covariant derivative • diffeomorphisms • Dimensional reduction • Dirac equation • Dirac Operator • Dirac spinor • divergence • Einstein Field Equations • electric charge • Electromagnetic field • Electromagnetic tensor • electromagnetism • Electron magnetic moment • elementary particle • Equation • Equations of motion • Equivalence Principle • Eulerian derivative • Factor • Fermi–Dirac statistics • Fermionic field • Fermi statistics • Feynman diagram • Field strength (theoretical physics) • Gauge Theory • general covariance • General relativity • General Theory • geodesic • Geometry • Gluon field • Grand Unified Theory • Gravitational constant • Gravitational Field • gravitational potential • Graviton • Gravity • hamiltonian • Hamilton–Jacobi equation • instantons • Integral • Introduction to General relativity • Jacobi identity • Kazimierz conference • Lagrangian • Lagrangian (field theory) • Laplace's equation • Lorentz covariance • Lorentz Force • Lorentz Group • Lorentz scalar • Lorentz transformation • magnetic dipoles • Magnetic field • Magnetic moment • magnetic monopole • mass–energy equivalence • Maxwell Equations • Meson-Nucleon Interaction • Metric tensor • Minkowski space • Modern Physics • Neutron • Newton's law of universal gravitation • Nuclear Force • Nucleon • Pauli equation • Pauli's theory • Perturbation theory (quantum mechanics) • physical cosmology • physicist • Physics • Planck constant • Poisson Bracket • quanta • quantum electrodynamics • quantum field theory • quantum mechanics • Quantum number • renormalization • Riemannian Geometry • Rigid group • Scalar (physics) • scale invariance • Schrödinger equation • Special relativity • Spinor • Spin (physics) • Statistical Physics • Stokes' theorem • Stress–energy tensor • String Theory • Supergravity • superposition principle • Supersymmetry • Tensor • Tetrad Formalism • theoretical physics • theory • Theory of relativity • Topology • Unitarity (physics) • virial theorem • Werner Heisenberg • Yang-Mills Theory • Yang–Mills Theory • Zeeman effect
• ISBN-10: 0-691-21511-1 / 0691215111
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-21511-2 / 9780691215112