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Author:   Milutin Blagojevic (Univ Of Belgrade, Serbia) ,  Friedrich W Hehl (Univ Of Cologne, Germany & Univ Of Missouri, Columbia, Usa)
Publisher:   Imperial College Press
Imprint:   Imperial College Press
Dimensions:   Width: 19.00cm , Height: 4.10cm , Length: 26.20cm
Weight:   1.497kg
ISBN:  

9781848167261

ISBN 10:   1848167261
Pages:   656
Publication Date:   15 April 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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The Rise of Gauge Theory of Gravity Up to 1961: From Special to General Relativity Theory; Analyzing General Relativity Theory; A Fresh Start by Yang - Mills and Utiyama; Poincare Gauge Theory: Einstein - Cartan( - Sciama - Kibble) Theory as a Viable Gravitational Theory; General Structure of Poincare Gauge Theory (Including Quadratic Lagrangians); Translational Gauge Theory; Fallacies About Torsion; Extending the Gauge Group of Gravity: Poincare Group Plus Scale Transformations: Weyl - Cartan Gauge Theory of Gravity; From the Poincare to the Affine Group: Metric-Affine Gravity; Conformal Gauge Theory of Gravity; (Anti-)de Sitter Gauge Theory of Gravity; From the Square Root of Translations to the Super-Poincare Group; Specific Subjects of Metric-Affine Gravity and Poincare Gauge Theory: Hamiltonian Structure; Equations of Motion for Matter; Cosmological Models; Exact Solutions; Poincare Gauge Theory in Three Dimensions; Dislocations and Torsion; The Yang Episode: A Historical Case Study.

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