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In this Chapter we examine the gauge groups, in which the parameters of thegroup transformations are continuous functions of the space-time coordinates; in other words, the global transformations considered up to now, in which the group parameters are space-time constants, are replaced by local ones. The gauge groups are extensively used in quantum field theory and, specifically, in the field theory of elementary particles.
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Costa, G., Fogli, G. (2012). Gauge Symmetries. In: Symmetries and Group Theory in Particle Physics. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 823. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15482-9_9
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