Geometrical and Topological Methods in Gauge Theories: Proceedings of the Canadian Mathematical Society Summer Research Institute McGill University, Montreal September 3–8, 1979: Lecture Notes in Physics, cartea 129

Physical effects of instantons.- Some aspects of instantons.- The interpretation of Higgs fields as Yang Mills fields.- Topological and phenomenological aspects of gravity and supergravity.- Bifurcation and stability in Yang-Mills theory with sources.- On the long-range interaction of topologically charged monopoles.- Interaction of superconducting vortices.- On groups of gauge transformations.- Construction of gauge fields from initial data.- Some solutions of the Einstein-Yang-Mills equations.- Some invariant solutions to the Yang-Mills equations in the presence of scalar fields in Minkowski space.- Graded Riemannian geometry and graded fibre bundles, a context for local super-gauge theories.- Metric and connection theories of gravity: The gauge theories of spacetime symmetry.