Geometrical and Topological Methods in Gauge Theories

Physical effects of instantons....Pages 1-13
Some aspects of instantons....Pages 14-44
The interpretation of Higgs fields as Yang Mills fields....Pages 45-50
Topological and phenomenological aspects of gravity and supergravity....Pages 51-58
Bifurcation and stability in Yang-Mills theory with sources....Pages 59-88
On the long-range interaction of topologically charged monopoles....Pages 89-95
Interaction of superconducting vortices....Pages 96-113
On groups of gauge transformations....Pages 114-120
Construction of gauge fields from initial data....Pages 121-133
Some solutions of the Einstein-Yang-Mills equations....Pages 134-136
Some invariant solutions to the Yang-Mills equations in the presence of scalar fields in Minkowski space....Pages 137-147
Graded Riemannian geometry and graded fibre bundles, a context for local super-gauge theories....Pages 148-153
Metric and connection theories of gravity: The gauge theories of spacetime symmetry....Pages 154-154