L. D. Faddeev – författare

This book focuses on the methods applied in the field theory of relativistic strings, which represent a direct generalization of the methods of gauge field theory. It deals with the geometrical aspects of the gauge field theory and illuminates the quantum theory of the Yang-Mills fields.

During the past ten years, since the first edition of this book, gauge invariant models of elementary particle interactions were transformed from an attractive plausible hypothesis into a generally accepted theory confirmed by experiments. It was therefore natural that the development of the methods of gauge fields attracted the attention of the gr

Gauge field theory describes the physics of elementary particles adequately at moderate energies. Besides, the methods applied in the field theory of relativistic strings represent a direct generalization of the methods of gauge field theory, to which this book is devoted. For this reason the author considers a new edition of it to be useful, both for direct applications of the already developed gauge theory and for search of new ways.

Gauge field theory describes the physics of elementary particles adequately at moderate energies. Besides, the methods applied in the field theory of relativistic strings represent a direct generalization of the methods of gauge field theory, to which this book is devoted. For this reason the author considers a new edition of it to be useful, both for direct applications of the already developed gauge theory and for search of new ways.

This is a collection of Prof L D Faddeev's important lectures, papers and talks. Some of these have not been published before and some have, for the first time, been translated from Russian into English. The topics covered correspond to several distinctive and pioneering contributions of Prof Faddeev to modern mathematical physics: quantization of YangߝMills and Einstein gravitational fields, soliton theory, the many-dimensional inverse problem in potential scattering, the Hamiltonian approach to anomalies, and the theory of quantum integrable models. There are also two papers on more general aspects of the interrelations between physics and mathematics as well as an autobiographical essay.