Gravitation and gauge symmetries. (©2002)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Milutin Blagojević.
• Other Names: Blagojević, Milutin
• Contents: Preface; ; Space, Time and Gravitation; Relativity of space and time; Gravitation and geometry; ; Spacetime Symmetries; Poincaré symmetry; Conformal symmetry; ; Poincaré Gauge Theory; Poincaré gauge invariance; Geometric interpretation; Gravitational dynamics; ; Weyl Gauge Theory; Weyl gauge invariance; Weyl-Cartan geometry; Dynamics; ; Hamiltonian Dynamics; Constrained Hamiltonian dynamics; The gravitational Hamiltonian; Specific models; ; Symmetries and Conservation Laws; Gauge symmetries; Conservation laws-EC theory; Conservation laws-the teleparallel theory; Chern-Simons gauge theory in D = 3; ; Gravity in Flat Spacetime; Theories of long range forces; Attempts to build a realistic theory; ; Nonlinear Effects in Gravity; Nonlinear effects in Yang-Mills theory; Scalar theory of gravity; Tensor theory of gravity; The first order formalism; ; Supersymmetry and Supergravity; Supersymmetry; Representations of supersymmetry; Supergravity; ; Kaluza-Klein Theory; Basic ideas; Five-dimensional KK theory; Higher-dimensional KK theory; ; String Theory; Classical bosonic strings; Oscillator formalism; First quantization; Covariant field theory; General remarks; ; Appendices; A: Local internal symmetries; B: Differentiable manifolds; C: De Sitter gauge theory; D: The scalar-tensor theory; E: Ashtekar's formulation of GR; F: Constraint algebra and gauge symmetries; G: Covariance, spin and interaction of massless particles; H: Lorentz group and spinors; I: Poincaré group and massless particles; J: Dirac matrices and spinors; K: Symmetry groups and manifolds; L: Chern-Simons gravity in three dimensions; M: Fourier expansion; ; Bibliography; Notations and Conventions; Index
• Publisher Details: Bristol : Institute of Physics Pub
• Publication Date: 2002
• Copyright Date: 2002
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiii, 522 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 530.142; Gravitation; Gauge fields (Physics); Unified field theories; SCIENCE -- Waves & Wave Mechanics; Gauge fields (Physics); Gravitation; Unified field theories; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 0585485852; 9780585485850; 9781420034264; 9780750307673; 0750307676
• Related ISBNs: 142003426X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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