文档介绍：Classical Theory of Gauge Fields
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Classical Theory
of Gauge Fields
Valery Rubakov
Translated by Stephen S Wilson
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
PRINCETON AND OXFORD
Copyright
c 2002 by Princeton University Press
Original title: Klassicheskie
Kalibrovochnye
Polia
c . Rubakov, 1999
c Editorial´ URSS, 1999
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ISBN 0-691-05927-6 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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Contents
Preface ix
Part I 1
1 Gauge Principle in Electrodynamics 3
-fieldactioninvacuum............ 3
........................ 5
General solution of Maxwell’s equations in vacuum ..... 6
......................... 8
2 Scalar and Vector Fields 11
System of units
= c =1................... 11
........................ 12
....................... 15
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Interacting fields. Gauge-invariant interaction in scalar
electrodynamics......................... 21
’stheorem....................... 26
3 Elements of the Theory of Lie Groups and Algebras 33
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............... 53
4 Non-Abelian Gauge Fields 57
-Abelianglobalsymmetries................ 57
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