Gauge theory and gravitation : proceedings of the International Symposium on Gauge Theory and Gravitation (g and G) held at Tezukayama University, Nara, Japan, August 20-24, 1982

Edited By K. Kikkawa, N. Nakanishi, And H. Nariai. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. A micro-deSitter spacetime with constant torsion: A new vacuum solution of the Poincaré gauge field theory....Pages 1-15 New general relativity - Translation gauge theory -....Pages 16-25 Generalizations of gravitational theory based on group covariance....Pages 26-30 Algebraic construction of static axially symmetric self-dual fields....Pages 31-35 Space-time structure of gravitational solitons....Pages 36-40 Dyon black hole in the Tomimatsu-Sato-Yamazaki space-time....Pages 41-44 Massive gauge theories in three dimensions (= at high temperature)....Pages 45-57 Gluon condensation and confinement of quarks....Pages 58-61 Generalized string amplitude and wave equation for hadrons....Pages 62-64 Stochastic quantization and large N reduction....Pages 65-74 Variational methods in the master field formulation for QCD 3+1 ....Pages 75-78 Confinement by thick magnetic vortices....Pages 79-83 Renormalizability of massive Yang-Mills theory....Pages 84-88 Absence of particle creation as an equilibrium condition....Pages 89-95 Renormalization and scaling of non-Abelian gauge fields in curved space-time....Pages 96-100 Two-point functions and renormalized observables....Pages 101-106 Vacuum energy in the bag model....Pages 107-112 Stochastic quantization and Gribov problem....Pages 113-115 The geometry of the configuration space of non abelian gauge theories....Pages 116-119 Lattice gauge theory — a progress report....Pages 120-132 Recent developments in the theory of large N gauge fields....Pages 133-140 Topological excitations on a lattice....Pages 141-145 Observation of Aharonov-Bohm effect by electron holography....Pages 146-154 BPS transformation and color confinement....Pages 155-160 Covariant operator formalism of gauge theories and its extension to finite temperature....Pages 161-165 Path integration at the crossroad of stochastic and differential calculus....Pages 166-170 Manifestly covariant canonical formalism of quantum gravity - A brief survey -....Pages 171-183 A gauge invariant resummation of quantum gravity....Pages 184-188 “The gauge invariant effective action for quantum gravity and its semi-quantitative approximation”....Pages 189-203 Background field method of gauge theory and the renormalization problem....Pages 204-207 Supersymmetric grand unification....Pages 208-216 Aspects of grand unified models with softly broken supersymmetry....Pages 217-221 Supersymmetric dipole mechanism and vacuum energy....Pages 222-226 Nosonomy of an inverted hierarchy model....Pages 227-230 Grand unified theories with symmetry and local supersymmetry....Pages 231-239 The auxiliary field/ultraviolet finiteness connection....Pages 240-248 Consistency of coupling in supergravity with propagating lorentz connexion....Pages 249-253 Cosmological phase transition in microcanonical gravity....Pages 254-258 Dimensional reduction....Pages 259-261 Kaluza-Klein type theory....Pages 262-266 Pregeometry....Pages 267-271 Scale invariant scalar-tensor theory and the origin of gravitational constant and particle masses....Pages 272-276 Concluding remarks....Pages 277-283 Quantized strings and QCD....Pages 284-292 One-loop divergences and β-functions in supergravity theories....Pages 293-300 A geometrical foundation of a unified field theory....Pages 301-305