Gauge Fields

Gauge field theory describes the physics of elementary particles adequately at moderate energies. Besides, the methods applied in the field theory of relativistic strings represent a direct generalization of the methods of gauge field theory, to which this book is devoted

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During the past ten years, since the first edition of this book, gauge invariant models of elementary particle interactions were transformed from an attractive plausible hypothesis into a generally accepted theory confirmed by experiments. It was therefore natural that the development of the methods of gauge fields attracted the attention of the gr