Symmetries in Fundamental Physics

• Main Author: Sundermeyer, Kurt (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Edition: 2nd ed. 2014.
• Series: Fundamental Theories of Physics ; 176
• Subjects: Physics.; Mathematical physics.; Gravitation.; Elementary particles (Physics).; Quantum field theory.; Phase transitions (Statistical physics).; Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics.; Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory.; Phase Transitions and Multiphase Systems.; Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory.; Mathematical Physics.

Over the course of the last century it has become clear that both elementary particle physics and relativity theories are based on the notion of symmetries. These symmetries become manifest in that the "laws of nature" are invariant under spacetime transformations and/or gauge transformati...