Gauge Theory and Variational Principles

By David Bleecker

Book Overview

Detailed and self-contained, this text supplements its rigor with intuitive ideas and is geared toward beginning graduate students and advanced undergraduates. Topics include principal fiber bundles and connections; curvature; particle fields, Lagrangians, and gauge invariance; inhomogeneous field equations; free Dirac electron fields; calculus on frame bundle; and unification of gauge fields and gravitation. 1981 edition

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486445461
• ISBN13: 9780486445465
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.5"