50 Years Of Yang-mills Theory,9789812389343

50 Years Of Yang-mills Theory

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ISBN13: 9789812389343
ISBN10: 9812389342
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2005-02-28
Publisher(s): World Scientific Pub Co Inc
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Summary

On the 50th anniversary of Yang-Mills theory, this invaluable volume looks back at the developments and achievements in elementary particle physics that ensued from that beautiful idea.

Table of Contents

Preface v
Introduction 1(12)
Chapter 1 Gauge Invariance and Interactions; Remembering Robert Mills
7(6)
C.N. Yang
Quantizing Gauge Field Theories 13(20)
Chapter 2 The Space of Gauge Fields: Its Structure and Geometry
15(18)
Bryce DeWitt
Ghosts for Physicists 33(28)
Chapter 3 Perturbation Theory for Gauge-Invariant Fields
39(22)
V.N. Popov and L.D. Faddeev
Breaking the Symmetry 61(36)
Chapter 4 Broken Symmetry and Yang-Mills Theory
65(32)
François Englert
Towards the Standard Model 97(22)
Chapter 5 The Making of the Standard Model
99(20)
Steven Weinberg
Renormalization 119(64)
Chapter 6 Renormalization
121(16)
Gerardus 't Hooft
Chapter 7 From Koszul Complexes to Gauge Fixing
137(31)
R. Stora
Chapter 8 The Renormalization Content of Slavnov-Taylor Identities
168(15)
Carlo Becchi
Anomalies 183(70)
Chapter 9 Anomalies to All Orders
187(42)
Stephen L. Adler
Chapter 10 Fifty Years of Yang-Mills Theory and Our Moments of Triumph
229(24)
Roman Jackiw
Asymptotic Freedom 253(16)
Chapter 11 Yang-Mills Theory In, Beyond, and Behind Observed Reality
255(14)
Frank Wilczek
Magnetic Monopoles 269(40)
Chapter 12 To Be Or Not to Be?
271(38)
F. Alexander Bais
Quark Confinement and Strings 309(22)
Chapter 13 Confinement and Liberation
311(20)
A.M. Polyakov
Fixing in Gauge Condition Non-Perturbatively 331(24)
Chapter 14 Non-Perturbative Aspects of Gauge Fixing
333(22)
Pierre van Baal
The Lattice 355(20)
Chapter 15 Yang-Mills Fields and the Lattice
357(18)
Michael Creutz
Fermions on the Lattice 375(24)
Chapter 16 Chiral Symmetry on the Lattice
377(22)
P. Hasenfratz
Confrontation with Experiment 399(32)
Chapter 17 Fifty Years of Yang-Mills Theories: A Phenomenological Point of View
401(30)
Alvaro De Rújula
Supersymmetry and Supergravity 431(26)
Chapter 18 Supergravity as a Yang-Mills Theory
433(24)
Peter van Nieuwenhuizen
Physics of the 21st Century 457
Chapter 19 Gauge/String Duality for Weak Coupling
459
Edward Witten

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