Differential Geometrical Methods in Mathematical Physics II
Proceedings, University of Bonn, July 13 - 16, 1977
Published on 1. September 1978
Book
Paperback/Softback
VI, 626 pages
978-3-540-08935-3 (ISBN)
Description
On the role of field theories in our physical conception of geometry.- Characteristic classes and solutions of gauge theories.- Classification of classical yang-mills fields.- Bundle representations and their applications.- to gauge theory.- The use of exterior forms in field theory.- Electromagnetic fields on manifolds: Betti numbers, monopoles and strings, minimal coupling.- Gravity is the gauge theory of the parallel - transport modification of the poincare group.- On the lifting of structure groups.- On the non-uniqueness of spin structure in superconductivity.- Conformal invariance in field theory.- Geometric quantization and the WKB approximation.- Some properties of half-forms.- On some approach to geometric quantization.- Representations associated to minimal co-adjoint orrits.- On the Schrödinger equation given by geometric quantisation.- Application of geometric quantization in quantum mechanics.- Thermodynamique et Geometrie.- Some preliminary remarks on the formal variational calculus of gel'fand and dikii.- Reducibility of the symplectic structure of minimal interactions.- Ambiguities in canonical transformations of classical systems and the spectra of quantum observables.- Quantum field theory in curved space-times a general mathematical framework.- On functional integrals in curved spacetime.- Observables for quantum fields on curved background.- Quantization of fields on a curved background.- Supergravity.- Representations of classical lie superalgebras.
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Series
Edition
1978 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Publishing group
Springer Berlin
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
VI, 626 p.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 35 mm
Weight
961 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-540-08935-3 (9783540089353)
DOI
10.1007/BFb0063664
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Content
On the role of field theories in our physical conception of geometry.- Characteristic classes and solutions of gauge theories.- Classification of classical yang-mills fields.- Bundle representations and their applications.- to gauge theory.- The use of exterior forms in field theory.- Electromagnetic fields on manifolds: Betti numbers, monopoles and strings, minimal coupling.- Gravity is the gauge theory of the parallel - transport modification of the poincare group.- On the lifting of structure groups.- On the non-uniqueness of spin structure in superconductivity.- Conformal invariance in field theory.- Geometric quantization and the WKB approximation.- Some properties of half-forms.- On some approach to geometric quantization.- Representations associated to minimal co-adjoint orrits.- On the Schrödinger equation given by geometric quantisation.- Application of geometric quantization in quantum mechanics.- Thermodynamique et Geometrie.- Some preliminary remarks on the formal variational calculus of gel'fand and dikii.- Reducibility of the symplectic structure of minimal interactions.- Ambiguities in canonical transformations of classical systems and the spectra of quantum observables.- Quantum field theory in curved space-times a general mathematical framework.- On functional integrals in curved spacetime.- Observables for quantum fields on curved background.- Quantization of fields on a curved background.- Supergravity.- Representations of classical lie superalgebras.