Gauge Theory and Gravitation [electronic resource] : Proceedings of the International Symposium on Gauge Theory and Gravitation (g & G) Held at Tezukayama University Nara, Japan, August 20–24, 1982 / edited by Keiji Kikkawa, Noboru Nakanishi, Hidekazu Nariai.

A micro-deSitter spacetime with constant torsion: A new vacuum solution of the Poincaré gauge field theory -- New general relativity - Translation gauge theory - -- Generalizations of gravitational theory based on group covariance -- Algebraic construction of static axially symmetric self-dual fields -- Space-time structure of gravitational solitons -- Dyon black hole in the Tomimatsu-Sato-Yamazaki space-time -- Massive gauge theories in three dimensions (= at high temperature) -- Gluon condensation and confinement of quarks -- Generalized string amplitude and wave equation for hadrons -- Stochastic quantization and large N reduction -- Variational methods in the master field formulation for QCD3+1 -- Confinement by thick magnetic vortices -- Renormalizability of massive Yang-Mills theory -- Absence of particle creation as an equilibrium condition -- Renormalization and scaling of non-Abelian gauge fields in curved space-time -- Two-point functions and renormalized observables -- Vacuum energy in the bag model -- Stochastic quantization and Gribov problem -- The geometry of the configuration space of non abelian gauge theories -- Lattice gauge theory — a progress report -- Recent developments in the theory of large N gauge fields -- Topological excitations on a lattice -- Observation of Aharonov-Bohm effect by electron holography -- BPS transformation and color confinement -- Covariant operator formalism of gauge theories and its extension to finite temperature -- Path integration at the crossroad of stochastic and differential calculus -- Manifestly covariant canonical formalism of quantum gravity - A brief survey - -- A gauge invariant resummation of quantum gravity -- “The gauge invariant effective action for quantum gravity and its semi-quantitative approximation” -- Background field method of gauge theory and the renormalization problem -- Supersymmetric grand unification -- Aspects of grand unified models with softly broken supersymmetry -- Supersymmetric dipole mechanism and vacuum energy -- Nosonomy of an inverted hierarchy model -- Grand unified theories with symmetry and local supersymmetry -- The auxiliary field/ultraviolet finiteness connection -- Consistency of coupling in supergravity with propagating lorentz connexion -- Cosmological phase transition in microcanonical gravity -- Dimensional reduction -- Kaluza-Klein type theory -- Pregeometry -- Scale invariant scalar-tensor theory and the origin of gravitational constant and particle masses -- Concluding remarks -- Quantized strings and QCD -- One-loop divergences and ?-functions in supergravity theories -- A geometrical foundation of a unified field theory.