In physics, a gauge theory is a type of field theory in which the Lagrangian, and hence the dynamics of the system itself, does not change under local...
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mathematical physics, gauge theory is the general study of connections on vector bundles, principal bundles, and fibre bundles. Gauge theory in mathematics should...
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A gauge theory is a type of theory in physics. The word gauge means a measurement, a thickness, an in-between distance (as in railroad tracks), or a resulting...
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physics, lattice gauge theory is the study of gauge theories on a spacetime that has been discretized into a lattice. Gauge theories are important in...
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In the physics of gauge theories, gauge fixing (also called choosing a gauge) denotes a mathematical procedure for coping with redundant degrees of freedom...
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many theories with supersymmetry (SUSY) which also have internal gauge symmetries. Supersymmetric gauge theory generalizes this notion. A gauge theory is...
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as well as a generic term for the class of similar theories. The Yang–Mills theory is a gauge theory based on a special unitary group SU(n), or more generally...
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In quantum field theory, gauge gravitation theory is the effort to extend Yang–Mills theory, which provides a universal description of the fundamental...
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In mathematical physics, higher gauge theory is the general study of counterparts of gauge theory that involve higher-degree differential forms instead...
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energies is by a supersymmetric gauge theory, and found geometrical interpretations of mathematical structures in gauge theory that he and Nathan Seiberg had...
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development of gauge theory and the completion of the Standard Model in the 1970s led to a renaissance of quantum field theory. Quantum field theory results...
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Gauge theory gravity (GTG) is a theory of gravitation cast in the mathematical language of geometric algebra. To those familiar with general relativity...
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a gauge theory interact with each other by the exchange of gauge bosons, usually as virtual particles. Photons, W and Z bosons, and gluons are gauge bosons...
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Grand Unified Theory (GUT) is any model in particle physics that merges the electromagnetic, weak, and strong forces (the three gauge interactions of...
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theoretical physics, Seiberg–Witten theory is an N = 2 {\displaystyle {\mathcal {N}}=2} supersymmetric gauge theory with an exact low-energy effective...
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physics, Hamiltonian lattice gauge theory is a calculational approach to gauge theory and a special case of lattice gauge theory in which the space is discretized...
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theory is specified by a choice of simple Lie group G known as the gauge group of the theory and also a number referred to as the level of the theory...
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unitarity gauge or unitary gauge is a particular choice of a gauge fixing in a gauge theory with a spontaneous symmetry breaking. In this gauge, the scalar...
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of gauge symmetries in classical field theory. Yang–Mills gauge theory and gauge gravitation theory exemplify classical field theories with gauge symmetries...
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Standard Model (section Gauge bosons)
and Politzer independently discovered that non-Abelian gauge theories, like the color theory of the strong force, have asymptotic freedom. In 1976, Martin...
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interest are the theories of Hermann Weyl of 1919, who introduced the concept of an (electromagnetic) gauge field in a classical field theory and, two years...
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Supergravity (redirect from Supergravity theory)
non-gravitational supersymmetric theories such as the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model. Supergravity is the gauge theory of local supersymmetry. Since...
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reproduce the known gauge forces. Also, to obtain a consistent, fundamental, quantum theory requires the upgrade to string theory, not just the extra...
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Affine gauge theory is classical gauge theory where gauge fields are affine connections on the tangent bundle over a smooth manifold X {\displaystyle X}...
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field theory; i.e. of a gauge theory. All gauge anomalies must cancel out. Anomalies in gauge symmetries lead to an inconsistency, since a gauge symmetry...
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A gauge group is a group of gauge symmetries of the Yang–Mills gauge theory of principal connections on a principal bundle. Given a principal bundle P...
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In theoretical physics, a cascading gauge theory is a gauge theory whose coupling rapidly changes with the scale in such a way that Seiberg duality must...
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Anomaly (physics) (section Higher anomalies involving higher global symmetries: Pure Yang–Mills gauge theory as an example)
not cause the path integral to vanish. In SU(2) gauge theory in 4 dimensional Minkowski space, a gauge transformation corresponds to a choice of an element...
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A theory of everything (TOE), final theory, ultimate theory, unified field theory, or master theory is a hypothetical singular, all-encompassing, coherent...
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Yang–Mills (SYM) theory is a relativistic conformally invariant Lagrangian gauge theory describing the interactions of fermions via gauge field exchanges...
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