In this book the authors develop and work out applications to gravity and gauge theories and their interactions with generic matter fields, including spinors in full detail. Spinor fields in particular appear to be the prototypes of truly gauge-natural objects, which are not purely gauge nor purely natural, so that they are a paradigmatic example of the intriguing relations between gauge natural geometry and physical phenomenology. In particular, the gauge natural framework for spinors is developed in this book in full detail, and it is shown to be fundamentally related to the interaction between fermions and dynamical tetrad gravity.
Auflage
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003
Sprache
Verlagsort
Zielgruppe
Für Beruf und Forschung
Research
Illustrationen
Maße
Höhe: 235 mm
Breite: 155 mm
Dicke: 21 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-90-481-6461-5 (9789048164615)
DOI
10.1007/978-94-017-2384-8
Schweitzer Klassifikation
I The Geometric Setting; Introduction.- 1. Fiber Bundles.- 2. Jet Bundles.- 3. Principal Bundles and Connections.- 4. Natural Bundles.- 5. Gauge Natural Bundles.- II The Variational Structure of Field Theories; Introduction.- 6. The Lagrangian Formalism.- 7. Natural Theories.- 8. Gauge Natural Theories.- III Spinor Fields; Introduction.- 9. Spin Structures and Spin Frames.- 10. Spinor Theories.- Final Word.- References.- Analitic Index.
