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Phys. Rev. D 23, 553–555 (1981)

Geometrical origin of gauge theories

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R. Gambini and A. Trias
Departamento de Física, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Apartado Postal: 80659, Caracas 108, Venezuela

Received 15 July 1980; published in the issue dated 15 January 1981

The identification of a basic geometric group structure acting on the manifold of paths P(M) of some manifold M enables us to derive all the kinematical elements of a gauge theory from the single postulate of invariance of the formulation under this group.

© 1981 The American Physical Society

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