Memorial Volume for Yi-Shi Duan

Yi-Shi Duan (1927–2016) was one of the world-renowned pioneers in the study of gauge field theory and general relativity. Trained in the former Soviet Union, Prof. Duan returned to China in 1957 to work in Lanzhou University for 60 years. In 1963, he came up with a general co-variant form of the conservation law of the energy-momentum tensor in general relativity. In 1979, he suggested that the gauge potential could be decomposed, which has important implications to gauge field theory. He trained in China a big team of talents in theoretical physics. His contributions to theoretical physics in China have earned him praise from both Professor Shiing-Shen Chern and Professor Chen-Ning Yang.

Contents:

• SU(2) Gauge Theory and Electrodynamics with N Magnetic Monopoles (Yi-Shi Duan and Mo-Lin Ge)

• Abelian Decomposition of QCD (Y M Cho)

• How Can We Understand Quark Confinement in Quantum Yang–Mills Theory? (Kei-Ichi Kondo)

• Asymmetrical Input-output Control in Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics (Yifu Zhu)

• Energy and Angular Momentum in Gravity Theories (Rong-Gen Cai and Li-Ming Cao)

• Gravitational Energy and the Gauge Theory Perspective (Chiang-Mei Chen and James M Nester)

• Energy-Momentum in General Relativity (Xiaoning Wu and Xiao Zhang)

• Introduction to Extra Dimensions and Thick Braneworlds (Yu-Xiao Liu)

• Appendices:

  • Chronicle of Prof. Yi-Shi Duan's Life
  • Chronicle of Prof. Yi-Shi Duan's Life (Chinese Version)
  • List of Prof. Yi-Shi Duan's Publications

Readership: Graduate students; researchers.
Key Features:

• Yi-Shi Duan was one of the world-renowned pioneers in the study of gauge field theory and general relativity in China
• He trained a big team of talents in theoretical physics in China, such as Mo-Lin Ge, Rong-Gen Cai, etc.
• His contributions to theoretical physics in China have earned him praise from both Professor S S Chern and Professor C N Yang