Richard Healey

Gauging What's Real

The Conceptual Foundations of Contemporary Gauge Theories

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Produktbeschreibung

This is a prize-winning study of an area of physics not previously explored by philosophy: gauge theory. Gauge theories have provided our most successful representations of the fundamental forces of nature. But how do such representations work? Healey defends an original answer to this question.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 485g
• ISBN-13: 9780199576937
• ISBN-10: 0199576939
• Artikelnr.: 27984690

Autorenporträt

Richard Healey is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: What is a Gauge Theory?
2: The Aharonov-Bohm E¿ect
3: Classical Gauge Theories
4: Interpreting Classical Gauge Theories
5: Quantized Yang-Mills Gauge Theories
6: The Empirical Import of Gauge Symmetry
7: Loop Representations
8: Interpreting Quantized Yang-Mills Gauge Theories
9: Conclusions