Magnetic Monopoles

✍ Scribed by Dr. Yakov M. Shnir (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 533
• Series: Texts and Monographs in Physics
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This monograph addresses the field theoretical aspects of magnetic monopoles. Written for graduate students as well as researchers, the author demonstrates the interplay between mathematics and physics. He delves into details as necessary and develops many techniques that find applications in modern theoretical physics. This introduction to the basic ideas used for the description and construction of monopoles is also the first coherent presentation of the concept of magnetic monopoles. It arises in many different contexts in modern theoretical physics, from classical mechanics and electrodynamics to multidimensional branes. The book summarizes the present status of the theory and gives an extensive but carefully selected bibliography on the subject. The first part deals with the Dirac monopole, followed in part two by the monopole in non-abelian gauge theories. The third part is devoted to monopoles in supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories.

✦ Table of Contents

Magnetic Monopole in Classical Theory....Pages 3-25
The Electron-Monopole System:Quantum-Mechanical Interaction....Pages 27-65
Topological Roots of the Abelian Monopole....Pages 67-107
Abelian Monopole: Relativistic Quantum Theory....Pages 109-137
’t Hooft-Polyakov Monopole....Pages 141-172
Multimonopole Configurations....Pages 173-239
SU (2) Monopole in Quantum Theory....Pages 241-274
Monopoles Beyond SU (2) Group....Pages 275-317
Monopoles and the Problem of Confinement....Pages 319-358
Fermions in the Field of Non-Abelian Monopole and Rubakov—Callan Effect....Pages 359-403
Construction of Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theories....Pages 407-435
Magnetic Monopoles in the N = 2 Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory....Pages 437-463
Seiberg—Witten Solution of N = 2 SUSY Yang—Mills Theory....Pages 465-499

✦ Subjects

Quantum Physics;Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics;Mathematical Methods in Physics;Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory