Gauge Theories
Holger Gies, WiSe 2025/2026
Lectures: Thursday 08-10, Straubel-HS, Abbeanum
Tutorials: Tuesday 10-12, SR2 HHW5.
First Event: Lecture on Thursday, 1st week of terms
Course organization
- The module registration proceeds via Friedolin according to the standard regulations.
- Lecture and exercise material available on Moodle.
- The form of the module examination (written exam or oral examination) depends on the number of participants and takes place by the end of or after the lecture course. Details will be announced on Moodle.
Literature
- Handwritten Lecture Notes (mostly in German) as PDF Scans:
- Physical origins and basic concepts of gauge theories
- Basics of QFT
- Quantization of gauge theories
- Background gauge and perturbation theory
- Perturbative effective action
- Dielectric model of confinement
- Gauge fields on loops and lattices
- Gauge fields on the lattice
- Confinement and monopoles
- Example: confinement in compact U(1) gauge theory in D=3
- Example: Georgi-Glashow model in D=4
- Monopoles in Yang-Mills theories
- Gribov-Zwanziger scenario (baby version)
- Quark confinement from color confinement
- Further literature:
- Stefan Pokorski, Gauge Field Theories, CUP (2000)
- Walter Ditrich, Martin Reuter, Selected Topics in Gauge Theories, Springer LNP 244 (1986)
- Jeff Greensite, An introduction to the confinement problem, Springer LNP 821 (211)