Abstract
David Bleecker 1981 Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley xviii + 179 pp price $17.50
This book, the first of a series on global analysis and its applications, is concerned with the precise formulation of the concepts of gauge theories, and the derivation of equations of motion from the Lagrangian using the customary variational techniques. The value of applying powerful modern mathematical techniques to gauge theories has been amply demonstrated in the last five years by the work of R Ward, M Atiyah, N Hitchin and others.