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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817989603321

Titolo

100 years of gravity and accelerated frames : the deepest insights of Einstein and Yang-Mills / / editors, Jong-Ping Hsu, Dana Fine

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore ; ; Hackensack, NJ ; ; London, : World Scientific, c2005

ISBN

1-281-90579-8

9786611905798

981-270-340-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (662 pages)

Collana

Advanced series on theoretical physical science ; ; v. 9

Altri autori (Persone)

HsuJ. P (Jong-Ping)

FineDana

Disciplina

530.11

Soggetti

Gravitation

Relativity (Physics)

Einstein field equations

Yang-Mills theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Remarks on the Development of the Gravitational and Yang-Mills Fields, and Accelerated Frames -- The Dawn of Gravitation -- Einstein's Deepest Insight and Its Early lmpacts -- The Scalar-Tensor Theory of Gravity -- Yang-Mills' Deepest Insight and Its Relation to Gravity -- Accelerated Frames: Generalizing the Lorentz Transformations -- Quantum Gravity and 'Ghosts -- Gauge Theories of Gravity -- Alternate Approaches to Gravity: Roads Less Traveled By -- Experimental Tests of Gravitational Theories -- Other Perspectives.

Sommario/riassunto

This collection of papers presents ideas and problems arising over the past 100 years regarding classical and quantum gravity, gauge theories of gravity, and spacetime transformations of accelerated frames. Both Einstein's theory of gravity and the Yang-Mills theory are gauge invariant. The invariance principles in physics have transcended both kinetic and dynamic properties and are at the very heart of our understanding of the physical world. In this spirit, this book attempts to survey the development of various formulations for gravitational and Yang-Mills fields and spacetime transformatio