Gauging what's real : the conceptual foundations of contemporary gauge theories /

Gauge theories have provided our most successful representations of the fundamental forces of nature. How, though, do such representations work? Interpretations of gauge theory aim to answer this question. Through understanding how a gauge theory's representations work, we are able to say what...

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Conceptual foundations of contemporary gauge theories
1. Verfasser:
Healey, Richard
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Zusammenfassung:
Gauge theories have provided our most successful representations of the fundamental forces of nature. How, though, do such representations work? Interpretations of gauge theory aim to answer this question. Through understanding how a gauge theory's representations work, we are able to say what kind of world our gauge theories reveal to us.A gauge theory's representations are mathematical structures. These may be transformed among themselves while certain features remain the same. Do the representations related by such a gauge transformation merely offer alternative ways of representing the ver
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1 online resource (xix, 297 pages) : illustrations.
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Description based upon print version of record.
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English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [280]-286) and index.
ISBN:
0-19-957693-9
1-281-15458-X
9786611154585
0-19-153707-1
1-4356-2415-7
Schlagworte:
Gauge fields (Physics)
Physics > Philosophy.
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