2022/05/22 by Frank Wilczek, Wilczek, Frank
Engineering · Environmental Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Astro and Planetary Science #FOS: Physical sciences #Geophysics and Sensor Technology #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Mathematical Physics (math-ph) #Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2205.10806
openalex publication_date 2022/05/22 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
C. N. Yang's ideas about local gauge symmetry and non-integrable phases have been enormously fertile sources of inspiration in fundamental physics and in the quantum theory of matter. They also arise naturally in describing the dynamics of deformable bodies. Here I extend previous discussions of the gauge symmetry of deformable bodies in several directions, bringing in an arbitrary number of dimensions, general time-dependence, conservation laws and adiabatic residuals. I briefly indicate other potential applications of the conceptual framework.