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.

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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