Holonomy and path structures in general relativity and Yang-Mills theory

DOI10.1007/BF00671007zbMath0728.53055OpenAlexW2095296929MaRDI QIDQ804987

John W. Barrett

Publication date: 1991

Published in: International Journal of Theoretical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00671007

zbMATH Keywords

connectionSpace-timeYang-Mills fieldsgeometry of the gravitational fieldholonomy datapaths of test bodies

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Applications of local differential geometry to the sciences (53B50)

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