Symmetry of Einstein-Yang-Mills systems and dimensional reduction (Q1079837)

This article is an enlarged version of the lectures delivered by the author in 1983 at the Stefan Banach Centre, Warsaw. It is supposed that space-time points are endowed with some internal structure, i.e. Minkowski space-time M is a base of a fiber bundle (E,\(\pi\),M) with dim E\(=4+N\), and \(\pi\) : \(E\to M\) is a projection map identifying points in E which are not to be discriminated. The fibers of E are homogeneous spaces, i.e. we are blind to the extra dimensions; so a certain symmetry group G is introduced. This group might be connected with internal symmetry groups, helpful for classifying elementary particle multiplets. The fibration might be introduced by a dynamical mechanism called ''spontaneous compactification''. This mechanism represents a generalization of the principal bundle structure and the general framework of G-invariant dimensional reduction has been presented by \textit{R. Coquereaux} and the author in a paper published in Commun. Math. Phys. 90, 79-100 (1983; Zbl 0519.53055). The main merit of this paper stems from the introduction of mathematical concepts well known to mathematicians, in the discussion of some aspects of elementary particle physics.