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Differential Characters

By Christian Bär , Christian Becker (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Year
2014
ISBN
978-3-319-07033-9, 978-3-319-07034-6
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-07034-6
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5033204 bytes)
Series
Lecture Notes in Mathematics 2112
Edition
1
Pages
187\198
Time added
2014-11-10 20:00:00
Differential Geometry; Algebraic Topology

Description

Providing a systematic introduction to differential characters as introduced by Cheeger and Simons, this text describes important concepts such as fiber integration, higher dimensional holonomy, transgression, and the product structure in a geometric manner. Differential characters form a model of what is nowadays called differential cohomology, which is the mathematical structure behind the higher gauge theories in physics.

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