On Some Recent Interactions Between Mathematics and Physics

DOI10.4153/CMB-1985-016-3zbMath0569.58019OpenAlexW1998313529WikidataQ56227753 ScholiaQ56227753MaRDI QIDQ3685718

Raoul Bott

Publication date: 1985

Published in: Canadian Mathematical Bulletin (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.4153/cmb-1985-016-3

zbMATH Keywords

Maxwell's equationsHamilton's principleYang-Mills fieldsclassical dynamicsYang-Mills equationsconcept of gravityEinstein's gravitational equationsmathematics physics interactionstopology and geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometric aspects in vector and tensor analysis (53A45) Development of contemporary mathematics (01A65) Constructive quantum field theory (81T08) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Dynamical aspects of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37J99) Hamilton's principle (70H25) Electromagnetic theory (general) (78A25) History of general topology (54-03) History of global analysis (58-03)

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