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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Gauging what's real
    sub title: the conceptual foundations of contemporary gauge theories
  name:
    name part: Healey, Richard.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2007
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xix, 297 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  table of contents: What is a gauge theory? -- Classical electromagnetism : a paradigm gauge theory -- A fiber bundle formulation -- Electromagnetic interactions of quantum particles -- Electromagnetic interactions of matter fields -- The Aharonov-Bohm effect -- Fiber bundles -- A gauge-invariant, local explanation? -- Geometry and topology in the Aharonov-Bohm effect -- Locality in the Aharonov-Bohm effect -- Lessons for classical electromagnetism -- Classical gauge theories -- Non-Abelian Yang-Mills theories -- The fiber bundle formulation -- Loops, groups, and hoops -- Topological issues -- A fiber bundle formulation of general relativity --A gravitational analog to the Aharonov-Bohm effect -- Interpreting classical gauge theories -- The no gauge potential properties view -- The localized gauge potential properties view -- Problems defining theoretical terms -- Leeds's view -- Maudlin's interpretation -- The non-localized gauge potential properties view -- A holonomy interpretation -- Epistemological considerations -- Objections considered -- Semantic considerations -- Metaphysical implications : non-separability and holism -- Quantized Yang-Mills gauge theories -- How to quantize a classical field -- Coulomb gauge quantization -- Lorenz gauge quantization -- Classical electromagnetism as a constrained Hamiltonian system -- The free Maxwell field as a Hamiltonian system -- Path-integral quantization -- Canonical quantization of non-Abelian fields -- Path-integral quantization of non-Abelian fields -- Interacting fields in the Lagrangian formulation -- The empirical import of gauge symmetry -- Two kinds of symmetry -- Observing gauge symmetry? -- The gauge argument -- Ghost fields -- Spontaneous symmetry-breaking -- The [theta]-vacuum -- Anomalies -- Loop representations -- The significance of loop representations -- Loop representations of the free Maxwell field -- Loop representations of other free Yang-Mills fields -- Interacting fields in loop representations -- The [theta]-vacuu…
  note: Richard Healey.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [280]-286) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Gauge fields (Physics)
  subject:
    topic: Physics
    topic: Philosophy
  classification: QC793.3.G38 H43 2007
  identifier: 0199287961 (alk. paper)
  identifier: 9780199287963 (alk. paper)
  identifier: 2007028013
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    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 070709
    record change date: 20151108060754.0
    record identifier: in00002354340