Gauge fields

Book · Sun Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1989

OSTI ID:6403662

Carmeli, M; Huleihil, K; Leibowitz, E

Although gauge fields are essentially quantum, the properties of the classical Yang--Mills field equations are of great importance. In particular, exact solutions of these equations, such as monopoles, dyons, instantons, and merons, have proved to be an essential and indispensable part of the whole theory. The authors discuss some recently obtained new exact solutions of the Yang--Mills SU(2) gauge field equations. These solutions are subsequently classified, the classification being similar to that of Petrov one has in general relativity theory in classifying the gravitational field. To obtain a better understanding of the physical meaning of the Yang--Mills fields, the authors also discuss the motion of a particle in these fields, first in general and later on for the particular fields.

• OSTI ID: 6403662
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
GENERAL PHYSICS
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
ANGULAR MOMENTUM
CLASSIFICATION
DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
DOCUMENT TYPES
EQUATIONS
EQUATIONS OF MOTION
FIELD THEORIES
GAUGE INVARIANCE
GENERAL RELATIVITY THEORY
GRAVITATIONAL FIELDS
INSTANTONS
INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES
LIE GROUPS
MANUALS
MONOPOLES
NONLINEAR PROBLEMS
PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
QUASI PARTICLES
SU GROUPS
SU-2 GROUPS
SYMMETRY GROUPS
YANG-MILLS THEORY