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

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

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1-320

  Healey, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Classical; Field; Force; Gauge; Loop; Quantum; Representation; Standard Model; Symmetry; Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 73449090377     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199287963.001.0001     Document Type: Book

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