Through detailed calculations of a number of concrete examples, this book displays an introduction to topology and geometry that reflects the recent impact of gauge theory. This text should be accessible to first year graduate students of mathematics and physics.
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14
14 s/w Abbildungen
XVIII, 396 p. 14 illus.
Dateigröße
ISBN-13
978-1-4757-2742-5 (9781475727425)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4757-2742-5
Schweitzer Klassifikation
0 Physical and Geometrical Motivation.- 1 Topological Spaces.- 2 Homotopy Groups.- 3 Principal Bundles.- 4 Differentiable Manifolds and Matrix Lie Groups.- 5 Gauge Fields and Instantons.- Appendix SU (2) and SO (3).- References.- Symbols.
