Preface |
Acknowledgments |
Introduction3 |
Gauge Transformations in Classical Electromagnetism13 / 1: |
Gravitation and Electricity24 |
Aftermath of Einstein's Gravitational Theory38 / 2: |
Generalizations of Einstein's Theory44 / 3: |
On the Unification Problem of Physics53 |
Quantum Theory and Five-Dimensional Relativity59 |
On the Invariant Form of the Wave and Motion Equations for a Charged Point-Mass70 |
The Renaissance of Weyl's Idea: EM Gauge Theory77 / 4: |
On a Remarkable Property of the Quantum-Orbits of a Single Electron87 |
Quantization as an Eigenvalue Problem91 |
Quantum-Mechanical Interpretation of Weyl's Theory94 |
Weyl's Classic, 1929107 / 5: |
Electron and Gravitation121 |
Klein's Serendipity, 1938147 / 6: |
On the Theory of Charged Fields152 |
Pauli's Dimensional Reduction, 1953166 / 7: |
Meson-Nucleon Interaction and Differential Geometry171 |
The Yang-Mills Theory, 1953-54182 / 8: |
Isotopic Spin Conservation and a Generalized Gauge Invariance185 |
Conservation of Isotopic Spin and Isotopic Gauge Invariance186 |
Shaw's SO(2) Approach, 1954-55197 / 9: |
Invariance under General Isotopic Spin Transformations200 |
Utiyama's General Approach, 1954-55208 / 10: |
Invariant Theoretical Interpretation of Interaction213 |
Conclusion240 |
References243 |
Index247 |