Gauge Fields, Knots And Gravity

Name: Gauge Fields, Knots And Gravity
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Series on knots & everything

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This is an introduction to the basic tools of mathematics needed to understand gravity. The book begins with a rapid course on manifolds and differential forms, emphasizing how these provide a proper language for formulating Maxwell's equations on arbitrary spacetimes. The authors then introduce vector bundles, connections and curvature in order to generalize Maxwell theory to the Yang-Mills equations. The relation of gauge theory to the newly discovered knot invariants such as the Jones polynomial is sketched. Riemannian geometry is then introduced in order to describe Einstein's equations of general relativity and show how an attempt to quantize gravity leads to interesting applications of knot theory.

Release date NZ

October 1st, 1994

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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational

Pages

480

Series

Series on knots & everything

Dimensions

157x220x30

ISBN-13

9789810217297

Product ID

13838687

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