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Geometrical and Topological Methods in Gauge Theories

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

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  • © 1980

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  1. J. P. Harnad
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  2. S. Shnider
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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP, volume 129)

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Table of contents (13 papers)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. Physical effects of instantons

    • Claude Bernard
    Pages 1-13

  3. Some aspects of instantons

    • E. Corrigan, P. Goddard
    Pages 14-44

  4. The interpretation of Higgs fields as Yang Mills fields

    • David B. Fairlie
    Pages 45-50

  5. Topological and phenomenological aspects of gravity and supergravity

    • Peter G. O. Freund
    Pages 51-58

  6. Bifurcation and stability in Yang-Mills theory with sources

    • R. Jackiw
    Pages 59-88

  7. On the long-range interaction of topologically charged monopoles

    • L. O'Raifeartaigh, S. Y. Park, K. C. Wali
    Pages 89-95

  8. Interaction of superconducting vortices

    • Claudio Rebbi
    Pages 96-113

  9. On groups of gauge transformations

    • Andrzej Trautman
    Pages 114-120

  10. Construction of gauge fields from initial data

    • James A. Isenberg
    Pages 121-133

  11. Some solutions of the Einstein-Yang-Mills equations

    • Jacek Tafel
    Pages 134-136

  12. Some invariant solutions to the Yang-Mills equations in the presence of scalar fields in Minkowski space

    • Luc Vinet
    Pages 137-147

  13. Graded Riemannian geometry and graded fibre bundles, a context for local super-gauge theories

    • Paul Green
    Pages 148-153

  14. Metric and connection theories of gravity: The gauge theories of spacetime symmetry

    • Philip B. Yasskin
    Pages 154-154

  15. Back Matter

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Geometrical and Topological Methods in Gauge Theories

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the Canadian Mathematical Society Summer Research Institute McGill University, Montreal September 3–8, 1979

  • Editors: J. P. Harnad, S. Shnider

  • Series Title: Lecture Notes in Physics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0024132

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1980

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-10010-2Published: 01 June 1980

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-38142-6Published: 19 November 2005

  • Series ISSN: 0075-8450

  • Series E-ISSN: 1616-6361

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 159

  • Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Mathematical Methods in Physics, Numerical and Computational Physics, Simulation

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