50 years of Yang-Mills theory 9789812389343, 9812389342, 9789812560070, 9812560076
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Table of contents :
Content: Gauge invariance and interactions
Remembering Robert Mills / C.N. Yang --
Quantizing gauge field theories --
The space of gauge fields : its structure and geometry / Bryce DeWitt --
Ghosts for physicists --
Perturbation theory for gauge-invariant fields / V.N. Popov and L.D. Faddeev --
Breaking the symmetry --
Broken symmetry and Yang-Mills theory / François Englert --
Towards the standard model --
The making of the standard model / Steven Weinberg --
Renormalization --
Renormalization / Gerardus 't Hooft --
From Koszul complexes to gauge fixing / R. Stora --
The renormalization content of Slavnov-Taylor identities / Carlo Becchi --
Anomalies --
Anomalies to all orders / Stephen L. Adler --
Fifty years of Yang-Mills theory and our moments of triumph / Roman Jackiw --
Asymptotic freedom --
Yang-Mills theory in, beyond, and behind observed reality / Frank Wilczek --
Magnetic monopoles --
To be or not to be? / F. Alexander Bais --
Quark confinement and strings --
Confinement and liberation / A.M. Polyakov --
Fixing in gauge condition non-perturbatively --
Non-perturbative aspects of gauge fixing / Pierre van Baal --
The lattice --
Yang-Mills fields and the lattice / Michael Creutz --
Fermions on the lattice --
Chiral symmetry on the lattice / P. Hasenfratz --
Confrontation with experiment --
Fifty years of Yang-Mills theories : a phenomenological point of view / Alvaro De Rújula --
Supersymmetry and supergravity --
Supergravity as a Yang-Mills theory / Peter van Nieuwenhuizen --
Physics of the 21st century --
Gauge/string duality for weak coupling / Edward Witten.
