[en] In this book, which is based on lectures given at the British Universities Summer School on Theoretical Particle Physics, 1979, the theoretical and physical ideas behind gauge field theories are discussed. The question of symmetry, hidden and manifest, global and local, and especially the relation between local symmetry and dynamics, is considered. Some of the technical aspects of canonical quantisation of gauge fields are explained and some topics related to renormalisation are introduced. (U.K.)
Source
1982; 174 p; Cambridge University Press; Cambridge (UK); ISBN 0 521 24540 0; 