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by David Bleecker
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ISBN: 0486445461 Dover Publications Price: $12.95 |
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Detailed and self-contained, this text supplements its rigor with intuitive ideas and is geared toward beginning graduate students and advanced undergraduates. Topics include principal fiber bundles and connections; curvature; particle fields, Lagrangians, and gauge invariance; inhomogeneous field equations; free Dirac electron fields; calculus on frame bundle; and unification of gauge fields and gravitation. 1981 edition
Republication of the Reading, MA, 1981 edition.
Table of Contents for Gauge Theory and Variational Principles
| 0. Preliminaries | |||||||
| 1. Principal Fiber Bundles and Connections | |||||||
| 2. Curvature and G-Valued Differential Forms | |||||||
| 3. Particle Fields, Lagrangians, Gauge Invariance | |||||||
| 4. Lagrange’s Equation for Particle Fields | |||||||
| 5. The Inhomogeneous Field Equation | |||||||
| 6. Free Dirac Electron Fields | |||||||
| 7. Interactions | |||||||
| 8. Calculus on Frame Bundle | |||||||
| 9. Unification of Gauge Fields and Gravitation | |||||||
| 10. Additional Topics | |||||||
| References | |||||||
| Selected Bibliography | |||||||
| Index of Notation | |||||||
| Index |