"These lecture notes discusses the developments both in the theoretical understanding of the physics and mathematics of magnetic monopoles as well as the ways in which they can be detected experimentally. The subject has now become highly interdisciplinary and recent monopole me…
The dawning of gauge theory
by O'Raifeartaigh, L., (Lochlainn)
fromPrinceton series in physics
The dawning of gauge theory
by O'Raifeartaigh, L., (Lochlainn)
fromPrinceton series in physics
During the course of this century, gauge invariance has slowly emerged from being an incidental symmetry of electromagnetism to being a fundamental geometrical principle underlying the four known fundamental physical interactions. The development has been in two stages. In the f…
