Geometry of Vector Sheaves: Geometry - Examples and Applications v. 2
An Axiomatic Approach to Differential Geometry
Anastasios Mallios(Author)
Kluwer Academic Publishers
Published on 1. December 1998
Book
Hardback
462 pages
978-0-7923-5005-7 (ISBN)
Description
This is the second volume of a two-volume monograph which obtains fundamental notions and results of the standard differential geometry of smooth manifolds, without using differential calculus. Here, the sheaf-theoretic character is emphasized. This has theoretical advantages such as greater perspective, clarity and unification, but also practical benefits ranging from elementary particle physics, via gauge theories and theoretical cosmology ("differential spaces"), to non-linear PDEs (generalized functions). Thus, more general applications, which are no longer "smooth" in the classical sense, can be coped with. The treatise might also be construed as a new systematic endeavour to confront the ever-increasing notion that the "world around us is far from being smooth enough". This work is intended for postgraduate students and researchers whose work involves differential geometry, global analysis, analysis on manifolds, algebraic topology, sheaf theory, cohomology, functional analysis or abstract harmonic analysis.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
bibliography, indexes
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7923-5005-7 (9780792350057)
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Content
Geometry. VI. Geometry of Vector Sheaves. -Connections. VII. -Connections. Local Theory. VIII. Curvature. IX. Characteristic Classes. Part Three: Examples and Applications. X. Classical Theory. XI. Sheaves and Presheaves with Topological Algebraic Structures.