Gauge Theories In The Twentieth Century

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John C Taylor
World Scientific, 19 paź 2001 - 404
By the end of the 1970s, it was clear that all the known forces of nature (including, in a sense, gravity) were examples of gauge theories, characterized by invariance under symmetry transformations chosen independently at each position and each time. These ideas culminated with the finding of the W and Z gauge bosons (and perhaps also the Higgs boson). This important book brings together the key papers in the history of gauge theories, including the discoveries of: the role of gauge transformations in the quantum theory of electrically charged particles in the 1920s; nonabelian gauge groups in the 1950s; vacuum symmetry-breaking in the 1960s; asymptotic freedom in the 1970s. A short introduction explains the significance of the papers, and the connections between them.
 

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1 Gauge invariance in electromagnetism
1
2 Nonabelian gauge theories
105
3 Gravity as a gauge theory
119
4 Gauge invariance and superconductivity
132
5 Spontaneous symmetry breaking and particle physics
157
6 Gaugefixing in nonabelian gauge theories
173
7 Gauge identities and unitarity
242
8 Asymptotic freedom
271
9 Monopoles and vortex lines
278
10 Nonperturbative approaches
319
11 Instantons and vacuum structure
350
12 Threedimensional gauge fields and topological actions
364
13 Gauge theories and mathematics
368
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