Geometrical and Topological Methods in Gauge Theories

Proceedings of the Canadian Mathematical Society Summer Research Institute McGill University, Montreal September 3–8, 1979

herausgegeben von J. P. Harnad und S. Shnider

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Herausgegeben von	J. P. Harnad
Herausgegeben von	S. Shnider

Physical effects of instantons.
Some aspects of instantons.
The interpretation of Higgs fields as Yang Mills fields.
Topological and phenomenological aspects of gravity and supergravity.
Bifurcation and stability in Yang-Mills theory with sources.
On the long-range interaction of topologically charged monopoles.
Interaction of superconducting vortices.
On groups of gauge transformations.
Construction of gauge fields from initial data.
Some solutions of the Einstein-Yang-Mills equations.
Some invariant solutions to the Yang-Mills equations in the presence of scalar fields in Minkowski space.
Graded Riemannian geometry and graded fibre bundles, a context for local super-gauge theories.
Metric and connection theories of gravity: The gauge theories of spacetime symmetry.