Under the Spell of the Gauge Principle

by Hooft, G. 't

• ISBN13: 9789810213084
• ISBN10: 9810213085
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-10-01
• Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction	p. 1
Gauge field theory	p. 16
DIAGRAMMAR	p. 28
Gauge theories with unified weak, electromagnetic and strong interactions	p. 174
The Renormalization Group in Quantum Field Theory	p. 208
Extended objects in gauge field theories	p. 254
Magnetic monopoles in unified gauge theories	p. 288
Computation of the quantum effects due to a four-dimensional pseudoparticle	p. 302
How instantons solve the U(1) problem	p. 321
Naturalness, chiral symmetry, and spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking	p. 352
Planar diagram field theories	p. 378
A two-dimensional model for mesons	p. 443
Epilogue to the Two-Dimensional Model	p. 453
Confinement and topology in non-Abelian gauge theories	p. 458
The confinement phenomenon in quantum field theory	p. 514
Can we make sense out of "Quantum Chromodynamics"?	p. 547
Quantum gravity	p. 584
Classical N-particle cosmology in 2 + 1 dimensions	p. 606
On the quantum structure of a black hole	p. 619
The gravitational shock wave of a massless particle	p. 629
S-matrix theory for black holes	p. 645
Can the ultimate laws of nature be found?	p. 666
Index	p. 678
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