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GAUGE FIELDS, KNOTS AND GRAVITY (Knots and Everything)

GAUGE FIELDS, KNOTS AND GRAVITY (Knots and Everything)

GAUGE FIELDS, KNOTS AND GRAVITY (Knots and Everything)
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GAUGE FIELDS, KNOTS AND GRAVITY (Knots and Everything) Hardcover - 1994

by John Baez

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World Scientific Publishing Company, 1994-10-01. hardcover. Used:Good.
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  • Title GAUGE FIELDS, KNOTS AND GRAVITY (Knots and Everything)
  • Author John Baez
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Condition Used:Good
  • Pages 480
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher World Scientific Publishing Company
  • Date 1994-10-01
  • Bookseller's Inventory # DADAX9810217293
  • ISBN 9789810217297 / 9810217293
  • Weight 1.75 lbs (0.79 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.6 x 6.2 x 1.2 in (21.84 x 15.75 x 3.05 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 94003438
  • Dewey Decimal Code 530.14

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This is an introduction to the basic tools of mathematics needed to understand the relation between knot theory and quantum gravity. The book begins with a rapid course on manifolds and differential forms, emphasizing how these provide a proper language for formulating Maxwell's equations on arbitrary spacetimes. The authors then introduce vector bundles, connections and curvature in order to generalize Maxwell theory to the Yang-Mills equations. The relation of gauge theory to the newly discovered knot invariants such as the Jones polynomial is sketched. Riemannian geometry is then introduced in order to describe Einstein's equations of general relativity and show how an attempt to quantize gravity leads to interesting applications of knot theory.
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