| Contents | 6 |
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| 0 Introduction and Orientation | 12 |
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| 1 Einstein's Gravity | 27 |
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| 1.1 Geometrization of Gravity | 27 |
| 1.2 Schwarzschild--Kruskal Spacetime | 30 |
| 1.3 Friedmann and de Sitter Universes | 34 |
| 2 Riemannian Manifolds | 39 |
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| 2.1 Differentiable Manifolds | 39 |
| 2.1.1 External Derivative | 42 |
| 2.2 Riemannian Operation Groups | 43 |
| 2.2.1 Metric-Induced Isomorphisms | 43 |
| 2.2.2 Tangent Euclidean and Poincaré Groups | 44 |
| 2.2.3 Global and Local Invariance Groups | 46 |
| 2.2.4 Riemannian Connection | 49 |
| 2.3 Affine Connections | 50 |
| 2.3.1 Torsion, Curvature, and Ricci Tensor | 51 |
| 2.3.2 Cartan's Stuctural Equations | 53 |
| 2.4 Lie Groups as Manifolds | 54 |
| 2.4.1 Lie Group Operations | 54 |
| 2.4.2 Lie Algebra Operations | 55 |
| 2.4.3 The Poincaré Group of a Lie Group | 56 |
| 2.4.4 Lie--Jacobi Isomorphisms for Lie Groups | 56 |
| 2.4.5 Examples | 57 |
| 2.4.6 Adjoint and Killing Connection of Lie Groups | 59 |
| 2.5 Riemannian Manifolds | 61 |
| 2.5.1 Lorentz Covariant Derivatives | 61 |
| 2.5.2 Laplace--Beltrami Operator | 62 |
| 2.5.3 Riemannian Curvature | 63 |
| 2.5.4 Einstein Tensor and Conserved Quantities | 64 |
| 2.6 Tangent and Operational Metrics | 65 |
| 2.6.1 Invariants | 66 |
| 2.7 Maximally Symmetric Manifolds | 67 |
| 2.7.1 Spheres and Hyperboloids | 68 |
| 2.7.2 Constant-Curvature Manifolds | 69 |
| 2.8 Rotation-Symmetric Manifolds | 70 |
| 2.9 Basic Riemannian Manifolds | 71 |
| 2.9.1 Manifolds with Dimension 1 | 72 |
| 2.9.2 Manifolds with Dimension 2 | 72 |
| 2.9.3 Manifolds with Dimension 3 | 74 |
| 2.9.4 Rotation-Invariant Four-Dimensional Spacetimes | 77 |
| 2.9.5 Robertson--Walker Metrics | 80 |
| 2.10 Covariantly Constant-Curvature Manifolds | 83 |
| 2.10.1 Orthogonal Symmetric Lie Algebras | 83 |
| 2.10.2 Real Simple Lie Algebras | 84 |
| 2.10.3 Globally Symmetric Riemannian Manifolds | 86 |
| 2.10.4 Curvature of Globally Symmetric RiemannianManifolds | 87 |
| 2.10.5 Examples | 89 |
| 3 Mass Points | 91 |
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| 3.1 Nonrelativistic Classical Interactions | 92 |
| 3.2 The Symmetries of the Kepler Dynamics | 94 |
| 3.3 Electrodynamics for Charged Mass Points | 96 |
| 3.4 Einstein Gravity for Mass Points | 97 |
| 3.5 Geodesics of Static Spacetimes | 98 |
| 3.6 Gravity for Charged Mass Points | 101 |
| 4 Quantum Mechanics | 103 |
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| 4.1 Nonrelativistic Wave Mechanics | 104 |
| 4.2 Harmonic Oscillator | 106 |
| 4.2.1 Position Representation | 107 |
| 4.2.2 Color SU(3) for 3-Position | 107 |
| 4.2.3 Harmonic Fermi Oscillator | 109 |
| 4.2.4 Bose and Fermi Oscillators | 109 |
| 4.3 Kepler Dynamics | 110 |
| 4.3.1 Position Representation | 111 |
| 4.3.2 Orthogonal Lenz--Runge Symmetry | 112 |
| 4.4 Particles and Ghosts | 115 |
| 4.4.1 Definite Metric, Fock Space, and Particles | 116 |
| 4.4.2 Indefinite Metric and Ghosts | 118 |
| 5 Quantum Fields of Flat Spacetime | 121 |
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| 5.1 Electrodynamics of Fields | 123 |
| 5.2 Gravity of Fields | 125 |
| 5.3 Gravity and Electrodynamics | 127 |
| 5.4 Linearized Einstein Equations | 128 |
| 5.5 Free Particles for Flat Spacetime | 129 |
| 5.6 Massive Particles with Spin 1 and Spin 2 | 133 |
| 5.7 Massless Polarized Photons and Gravitons | 136 |
| 5.8 Quantum Gauge Fields | 140 |
| 5.8.1 Fadeev--Popov Ghosts in Quantum Mechanics | 141 |
| 5.8.2 Fadeev--Popov Ghosts for Quantum Gauge Fields | 143 |
| 5.8.3 Particle Analysis of Massless Vector Fields | 144 |
| 5.9 Hilbert Representations of the Poincaré Group | 146 |
| 5.10 Normalizations and Coupling Constants | 148 |
| 5.11 Renormalization of Gauge Fields | 150 |
| 5.11.1 Perturbative Corrections of Normalizations | 151 |
| 5.11.2 Lie Algebra Renormalization by Vacuum Polarization | 154 |
| 6 External and Internal Operations | 156 |
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| 6.1 Fiber Bundles | 157 |
| 6.1.1 Fibers and Base | 157 |
| 6.1.2 Structural and Gauge Groups | 158 |
| 6.2 Nonrelativistic and Relativistic Bundles | 159 |
| 6.3 Connections of Vector Space Bundles | 161 |
| 6.4 Pure Gauges, Distinguished Frames, and CompositeGauge Fields | 163 |
| 6.5 Chargelike Internal Connections | 165 |
| 6.5.1 Currents as Lie Algebra Densities | 165 |
| 6.5.2 Normalizations of Gauge Fields | 167 |
| 6.5.3 Gauge Interactions in the Standard Model | 167<
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