gauge theory

C1454
concept

A gauge theory is a type of field theory in which the laws of physics are invariant under continuous local transformations of certain internal symmetries, leading to the introduction of gauge fields that mediate fundamental interactions.

All labels observed (12)

Label Occurrences
gauge theory canonical 11
class of field theories 1
concept in gauge theory 1

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: gauge theory
Generated description
A gauge theory is a type of field theory in which the laws of physics are invariant under continuous local transformations of certain internal symmetries, leading to the introduction of gauge fields that mediate fundamental interactions.

Instances (19)

Instance Via concept surface
Weyl’s gauge theory
SU(2)_L gauge symmetry
Chern–Simons theory
Yang–Mills theory
Seiberg–Witten theory supersymmetric gauge theory framework
quantum electrodynamics
Einstein–Yang–Mills equations gauge field equations
Yukawa meson theory theory of the strong interaction
BF theory
quantum chromodynamics
Georgi–Glashow model grand unified theory
Georgi–Glashow SU(5) grand unified theory
gauge theory class of field theories
Plebański formulation of general relativity gauge-theoretic formulation
Plebański formulation of self-dual gravity self-dual gauge theory
Donaldson theory
Wilson loop concept in gauge theory
Standard Model
Salam–Weinberg model