Gravitation and Gauge Symmetries

List of contents

The Rise of Gauge Theory of Gravity Up to 1961: From Special to General Relativity Theory; Analyzing General Relativity Theory; A Fresh Start by Yang - Mills and Utiyama; Poincare Gauge Theory: Einstein - Cartan( - Sciama - Kibble) Theory as a Viable Gravitational Theory; General Structure of Poincare Gauge Theory (Including Quadratic Lagrangians); Translational Gauge Theory; Fallacies About Torsion; Extending the Gauge Group of Gravity: Poincare Group Plus Scale Transformations: Weyl - Cartan Gauge Theory of Gravity; From the Poincare to the Affine Group: Metric-Affine Gravity; Conformal Gauge Theory of Gravity; (Anti-)de Sitter Gauge Theory of Gravity; From the Square Root of Translations to the Super-Poincare Group; Specific Subjects of Metric-Affine Gravity and Poincare Gauge Theory: Hamiltonian Structure; Equations of Motion for Matter; Cosmological Models; Exact Solutions; Poincare Gauge Theory in Three Dimensions; Dislocations and Torsion; The Yang Episode: A Historical Case Study.

Summary

Focuses on the connection between the intrinsic structure of gravity and the principle of gauge invariance. This book gives an account of the structure of gravity as a theory based on spacetime gauge symmetries, discussing basic properties of space, time, and gravity; conformal symmetries; and, the constrained Hamiltonian of Poincare gauge theory.

Product details

• Authors: M Blagojevic
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.05.2019
• EAN: 9781138406315
• ISBN: 978-1-138-40631-5
• No. of pages: 536
• Series: Series in High Energy Physics, Cosmology and Gravitation
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Mechanics, acoustics; SCIENCE / Physics / Electricity, SCIENCE / Physics / Magnetism, SCIENCE / Mechanics / General, SCIENCE / Physics / Electromagnetism, Classical mechanics, Electricity, electromagnetism & magnetism, Electricity, electromagnetism and magnetism