Gravitation and gauge symmetries
By: Milutin Blagojević
Series: Series in high energy physics, cosmology and gravitation
Publisher: Institute of Physics Pub.
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Bristol; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 522
Subjects: Gravitation; Gauge fields (Physics); Unified field theories
Description: In the course of the development of electromagnetic, weak and strong interactions, the concept of (internal) gauge invariance grew up and established itself as an unavoidable dynamical principle in particle physics. It is less known that the principle of equivalence, and the basic dynamical properties of the gravitational interaction can also be expressed as a (spacetime) gauge symmetry.Gravitation and Gauge Symmetries sheds light on the connection between the intrinsic structure of gravity and the principle of gauge invariance, which may lead to a consistent unified field theory. The.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index