Differential Characters

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.

List of contents

Differential Characters and Geometric Chains.- Relative differential Cohomology.- Index.

Summary

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.
 

Product details

• Authors: Christian Baer, Christia Bär, Christian Bär, Christian Becker
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.04.2014
• EAN: 9783319070339
• ISBN: 978-3-31-907033-9
• No. of pages: 187
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 11 mm x 235 mm
• Weight: 312 g
• Illustrations: VIII, 187 p.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Mathematics; Lecture Notes in Mathematics
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > Geometry