La 4e de couverture indique : "Classical solutions play an important role in quantum field theory, high energy physics and cosmology. Real-time soliton solutions give rise to particles, such as magnetic monopoles, and extended structures, such as domain walls and cosmic strings,…
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…
The goal of this work is to initiate mathematical theory of tunneling at positive temperatures. The mathematical framework we develop here rests on the notion of resonance free energy, [special characters omitted] (where [special characters omitted] is inverse temperature). This…