Modern Differential Geometry in Gauge Theories

Modern Differential Geometry in Gauge Theories
Author: Anastasios Mallios
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2009-10-22
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0817646345

Original, well-written work of interest Presents for the first time (physical) field theories written in sheaf-theoretic language Contains a wealth of minutely detailed, rigorous computations, ususally absent from standard physical treatments Author's mastery of the subject and the rigorous treatment of this text make it invaluable

Modern Differential Geometry in Gauge Theories

Modern Differential Geometry in Gauge Theories
Author: Anastasios Mallios
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2006-07-27
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0817644741

This is original, well-written work of interest Presents for the first time (physical) field theories written in sheaf-theoretic language Contains a wealth of minutely detailed, rigorous computations, ususally absent from standard physical treatments Author's mastery of the subject and the rigorous treatment of this text make it invaluable

Modern Differential Geometry in Gauge Theories: Yang-Mills fields

Modern Differential Geometry in Gauge Theories: Yang-Mills fields
Author: Anastasios Mallios
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006
Genre: Gauge fields (Physics)
ISBN:

Presenting a modern differential geometry approach to physical theories, such as the Gauge theory, Sheaf theory (geometry) and sheaf cohomology (analysis) are used to explain the machinery of classical differential geometry. There is also discussion of the applications of differential geometry to physical theories.

Modern Differential Geometry in Gauge Theories

Modern Differential Geometry in Gauge Theories
Author: Anastasios Mallios
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2008-11-01
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9780817670900

This is original, well-written work of interest Presents for the first time (physical) field theories written in sheaf-theoretic language Contains a wealth of minutely detailed, rigorous computations, ususally absent from standard physical treatments Author's mastery of the subject and the rigorous treatment of this text make it invaluable

Differential Geometry, Gauge Theories, and Gravity

Differential Geometry, Gauge Theories, and Gravity
Author: M. Göckeler
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1989-07-28
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9780521378215

Cambridge University Press is committed to keeping scholarly work in print for as long as possible. A short print-run of this academic paperback has been produced using digital technology. This technology has enabled Cambridge to keep the book in print for specialists and students when traditional methods of reprinting would not have been feasible. While the new digital cover differs from the original, the text content is identical to that of previous printings.

Differential Geometry and Mathematical Physics

Differential Geometry and Mathematical Physics
Author: Gerd Rudolph
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 837
Release: 2017-03-22
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9402409599

The book is devoted to the study of the geometrical and topological structure of gauge theories. It consists of the following three building blocks:- Geometry and topology of fibre bundles,- Clifford algebras, spin structures and Dirac operators,- Gauge theory.Written in the style of a mathematical textbook, it combines a comprehensive presentation of the mathematical foundations with a discussion of a variety of advanced topics in gauge theory.The first building block includes a number of specific topics, like invariant connections, universal connections, H-structures and the Postnikov approximation of classifying spaces.Given the great importance of Dirac operators in gauge theory, a complete proof of the Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem is presented. The gauge theory part contains the study of Yang-Mills equations (including the theory of instantons and the classical stability analysis), the discussion of various models with matter fields (including magnetic monopoles, the Seiberg-Witten model and dimensional reduction) and the investigation of the structure of the gauge orbit space. The final chapter is devoted to elements of quantum gauge theory including the discussion of the Gribov problem, anomalies and the implementation of the non-generic gauge orbit strata in the framework of Hamiltonian lattice gauge theory.The book is addressed both to physicists and mathematicians. It is intended to be accessible to students starting from a graduate level.

Modern Differential Geometry For Physicists

Modern Differential Geometry For Physicists
Author: Chris J Isham
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 192
Release: 1989-08-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9814507288

These notes are the content of an introductory course on modern, coordinate-free differential geometry which is taken by the first-year theoretical physics PhD students, or by students attending the one-year MSc course “Fundamental Fields and Forces” at Imperial College. The book is concerned entirely with mathematics proper, although the emphasis and detailed topics have been chosen with an eye to the way in which differential geometry is applied these days to modern theoretical physics. This includes not only the traditional area of general relativity but also the theory of Yang-Mills fields, non-linear sigma-models and other types of non-linear field systems that feature in modern quantum field theory. This volume is in three parts dealing with, respectively, (i) introductory coordinate-free differential geometry, (ii) geometrical aspects of the theory of Lie groups and Lie group actions on manifolds, (iii) introduction to the theory of fibre bundles. In the first part of the book the author has laid considerable stress on the basic ideas of “tangent space structure” which he develops from several different points of view: some geometrical, and others more algebraic. This is done with the awareness of the difficulty which physics graduate students often experience when being exposed for the first time to the rather abstract ideas of differential geometry.

Geometry of Yang-Mills Fields

Geometry of Yang-Mills Fields
Author: Michael F. Atiyah
Publisher: Edizioni della Normale
Total Pages: 110
Release: 1979-10
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN:

These Lecture Notes are an expanded version of the Fermi Lectures I gave at Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, the Loeb Lectures at Harvard and the Whittemore Lectures at Yale, in 1978. In all cases I was addressing a mixed audience of mathematicians and physicists and the presentation had to be tailored accordingly. Throughout, I presented the mathematical material in a somewhat unorthodox order, following a pattern which I felt would relate the new techniques to familiar ground for physicists. The main new results presented in the lectures, namely the construction of all multi-istanton solutions of Yang-Mills fields, is the culmination of several years of fruitful interaction between many physicists and mathematicians. The major breakthrough came with the observation by Ward that the complex methods developed by Penrose in his “twistor programme” were ideally suited to the study of the Yang-Mills equations. The instanton problem was then seen to be equivalent to a problem in complex analysis and to one in algebraic geometry. Using the powerful methods of modern algebraic geometry it was not long before the problem was finally solved.

Modern Differential Geometry For Physicists (2nd Edition)

Modern Differential Geometry For Physicists (2nd Edition)
Author: Chris J Isham
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Total Pages: 306
Release: 1999-03-19
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9813102969

This edition of the invaluable text Modern Differential Geometry for Physicists contains an additional chapter that introduces some of the basic ideas of general topology needed in differential geometry. A number of small corrections and additions have also been made.These lecture notes are the content of an introductory course on modern, coordinate-free differential geometry which is taken by first-year theoretical physics PhD students, or by students attending the one-year MSc course “Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces” at Imperial College. The book is concerned entirely with mathematics proper, although the emphasis and detailed topics have been chosen bearing in mind the way in which differential geometry is applied these days to modern theoretical physics. This includes not only the traditional area of general relativity but also the theory of Yang-Mills fields, nonlinear sigma models and other types of nonlinear field systems that feature in modern quantum field theory.The volume is divided into four parts: (i) introduction to general topology; (ii) introductory coordinate-free differential geometry; (iii) geometrical aspects of the theory of Lie groups and Lie group actions on manifolds; (iv) introduction to the theory of fibre bundles. In the introduction to differential geometry the author lays considerable stress on the basic ideas of “tangent space structure”, which he develops from several different points of view — some geometrical, others more algebraic. This is done with awareness of the difficulty which physics graduate students often experience when being exposed for the first time to the rather abstract ideas of differential geometry.