Differential Characters electronic resource by Christian Bär, Christian Becker.
Material type: TextSeries: Lecture Notes in MathematicsPublication details: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014Description: VIII, 187 p. online resourceContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9783319070346Subject(s): mathematics | Global differential geometry | Algebraic topology | Mathematics | Differential Geometry | Algebraic TopologyDDC classification: 516.36 LOC classification: QA641-670Online resources: Click here to access onlineDifferential Characters and Geometric Chains -- Relative differential Cohomology -- Index.
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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