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Mass and curvature. (English) Zbl 1043.53069

Mladenov, Ivaïlo M. (ed.) et al., Proceedings of the 4th international conference on geometry, integrability and quantization, Sts. Constantine and Elena, Bulgaria, June 6–15, 2002. Sofia: Coral Press Scientific Publishing (ISBN 954-90618-4-1/pbk). 303-315 (2003).
The author discusses the question how the notion of mass of elementary particles is related to the geometrical concept of curvature.
For the entire collection see [Zbl 1008.00022].

MSC:

53Z05 Applications of differential geometry to physics
53C07 Special connections and metrics on vector bundles (Hermite-Einstein, Yang-Mills)
81V25 Other elementary particle theory in quantum theory
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