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Geometric approaches to particle physics

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Geometric approaches to particle physics have opened up new perspectives and unifying insights. After a few historical remarks I discuss the essence of the concept of G-theory: a primordial symmetry acting on a manifold and on the fields defined on it. This is then illustrated by the finite-dimensional case of Kaluza-Klein theories and by the infinite-dimensional case of chiral anomalies in Yang-Mills theories. In the latter case, a new and unifying description of topological and global anomalies is obtained.

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  1. Institut für Physik, Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität, Staudinger Weg 7, Postfach 39 80, D-6500, Mainz, Fed.Rep.of Germany

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Scheck, F. (1990). Geometric approaches to particle physics. In: Ciulli, S., Scheck, F., Thirring, W. (eds) Rigorous Methods in Particle Physics. Springer Tracts in Modern Physics, vol 119. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0117565

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