Gauging What's Real: The Conceptual Foundations of Gauge Theories

by Richard Healey

Book Overview

Gauge theories have provided our most successful representations of the fundamental forces of nature. How, though, do such representations work? Interpretations of gauge theory aim to answer this question. Through understanding how a gauge theory's representations work, we are able to say what kind of world our gauge theories reveal to us.

A gauge theory's representations are mathematical structures. These may be transformed among themselves...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199287961
• ISBN13: 9780199287963
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 1.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.4"