Gauge Theories In The Twentieth Century pdf ~ [email protected]

Gauge Theories In The Twentieth Century pdf ~ [email protected]





By the end of the 1970s, it was clear that all the known forces of nature (including, in a sense, gravity) were

examples of gauge theories, characterized by invariance under symmetry transformations chosen independently at

each position and each time. These ideas culminated with the finding of the W and Z gauge bosons (and perhaps

also the Higgs boson). This volume brings together the key papers in the history of gauge theories, including

the discoveries of: the role of gauge transformations in the quantum theory of electrically charged particles

in the 1920s; nonabelian gauge groups in the 1950s; vacuum symmetry-breaking in the 1960s; asymptotic freedom

in the 1970s. A short introduction explains the significance of the papers, and the connections between them.


John C. Taylor, "Gauge Theories In The Twentieth Century"
World Scientific Publishing Company | 2001-10-19 | ISBN: 1860942814 | 404 pages | PDF | 7,7 MB