Record Nr.

UNISA996466759303316

Autore

Bleuler Konrad <1912->

Titolo

Differential geometrical methods in mathematical physics II : proceedings, University of Bonn, July 13-16, 1977 / / K. Bleuler, H. R. Petry, A. Reetz

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Berlin : , : Springer, , [1978]
©1978

ISBN

3-540-35721-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 1978.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VI, 626 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Mathematics, , 0075-8434 ; ; 676

Classificazione

00Bxx

53-06

55-06

57-06

Disciplina

516.36

Soggetti

Geometry, Differential

Mathematical physics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

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.