Gauge Symmetries and Fibre Bundles: Applications to Particle Dynamics (Lecture Notes in Physics, 188)

Introduction....Pages 1-4 Meaning of gauge invariance....Pages 5-15 Nonrelativistic particles with spin....Pages 16-27 Magnetic monopoles....Pages 28-36 Relativistic spinning particles....Pages 37-51 Yang-mills particles....Pages 52-69 Kaluza-Klein theory....Pages 70-76 The canonical formalism and quantization....Pages 77-96 Pseudo-classical description....Pages 97-114 Local and global Lagrangians....Pages 115-128