50 years of Yang-Mills theory

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Content: Gauge invariance and interactions Remembering Robert Mills / C.N. Yang -- Quantizing gauge field theories -- The space of gauge fields : its structure and geometry / Bryce DeWitt -- Ghosts for physicists -- Perturbation theory for gauge-invariant fields / V.N. Popov and L.D. Faddeev -- Breaking the symmetry -- Broken symmetry and Yang-Mills theory / François Englert -- Towards the standard model -- The making of the standard model / Steven Weinberg -- Renormalization -- Renormalization / Gerardus 't Hooft -- From Koszul complexes to gauge fixing / R. Stora -- The renormalization content of Slavnov-Taylor identities / Carlo Becchi -- Anomalies -- Anomalies to all orders / Stephen L. Adler -- Fifty years of Yang-Mills theory and our moments of triumph / Roman Jackiw -- Asymptotic freedom -- Yang-Mills theory in, beyond, and behind observed reality / Frank Wilczek -- Magnetic monopoles -- To be or not to be? / F. Alexander Bais -- Quark confinement and strings -- Confinement and liberation / A.M. Polyakov -- Fixing in gauge condition non-perturbatively -- Non-perturbative aspects of gauge fixing / Pierre van Baal -- The lattice -- Yang-Mills fields and the lattice / Michael Creutz -- Fermions on the lattice -- Chiral symmetry on the lattice / P. Hasenfratz -- Confrontation with experiment -- Fifty years of Yang-Mills theories : a phenomenological point of view / Alvaro De Rújula -- Supersymmetry and supergravity -- Supergravity as a Yang-Mills theory / Peter van Nieuwenhuizen -- Physics of the 21st century -- Gauge/string duality for weak coupling / Edward Witten.