Gravitation and gauge symmetries / Milutin Blagojevic.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blagojević, Milutin.

Series:

Series in high energy physics, cosmology, and gravitation.

Series in high energy physics, cosmology, and gravitation

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gravitation.

Gauge fields (Physics).

Unified field theories.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (536 p.)

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Institute of Physics Pub., c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the course of the development of electromagnetic, weak and strong interactions, the concept of (internal) gauge invariance grew up and established itself as an unavoidable dynamical principle in particle physics. It is less known that the principle of equivalence, and the basic dynamical properties of the gravitational interaction can also be expressed as a (spacetime) gauge symmetry.Gravitation and Gauge Symmetries sheds light on the connection between the intrinsic structure of gravity and the principle of gauge invariance, which may lead to a consistent unified field theory. The

Contents:

Contents; Preface; 1. Space, time and gravitation; 2. Spacetime symmetries; 3. Poincare gauge theory; 4. Weyl gauge theory; 5. Hamiltonian dynamics; 6. Symmetries and conservation laws; 7. Gravity in flat spacetime; 8. Nonlinear effects in gravity; 9. Supersymmetry and supergravity; 10. Kaluza-Klein theory; 11. String theory; Appendices; Bibliography; Notations and conventions; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-000-68779-1

0-429-18716-5

1-138-40631-7

1-4200-3426-X

1-280-65073-7

9786610650736

9780429187162

OCLC:

647596833