Quarks and Nuclear Structure: Proceedings of the 3rd Klaus Erkelenz Symposium Held at Bad Honnef, June 13–16, 1983 (Lecture Notes in Physics, 197)

Since 1980 most of the work ott QCD has involved Monte Carlo simulations of lattice gauge theories. In this report I will review these works, emphasizing the most recent and/or the most accurate ones. The basic concepts of QCD, as well as a description of prior developments can be found (with all modesty) in my review. This talk will be divided into three parts.- Results from theories with no dynamical quarks. These include a determination of the string tension and the spectra of quarkless mesons (glueballs).- Inclusion of quarks in the quenched approximation. The topics discussed include chiral symmetry breaking, hadronic spectra and static properties of hadrons.- Caveats. Some of the studies on the validity of the quenched approximation and the problems brought on by the practical restrictions on lattice sizes are presented.