Non-linear Partial Differential Operators and Quantization Procedures: Proceedings of a Workshop held at Clausthal, Federal Republic of Germany, 1981 (Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 1037)

Einstein's evolution equation for the vacuum formulated on a space of differentials of immersions....Pages 2-37 Nonlinear sigma models on symmetric spaces....Pages 38-80 Linearized non-abelian gauge quantum field theories....Pages 81-114 Nonlinear wave equations....Pages 115-141 The twistor-geometric representation of classical field theories....Pages 142-169 Quantum kinematics on smooth manifolds....Pages 171-208 On geometric quantization....Pages 209-241 The frobenius reciprocity theorem from a symplectic point of view....Pages 242-256 Quantization of models of quantum field theory with solitons....Pages 257-285 Determination of a polarization by nonlinear scattering, and examples of the resulting quantization....Pages 286-300 Constraints and quantization....Pages 301-334