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Record Nr.

UNINA9910299765603321

Autore

Sontz Stephen Bruce

Titolo

Principal Bundles : The Classical Case / / by Stephen Bruce Sontz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015

ISBN

3-319-14765-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XV, 280 p. 85 illus., 64 illus. in color.)

Collana

Universitext, , 0172-5939

Disciplina

515.2433

Soggetti

Mathematical physics

Quantum computers

Harmonic analysis

Mathematical Physics

Quantum Computing

Abstract Harmonic Analysis

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Basics of Manifolds -- Vector Bundles -- Vectors and Covectors -- Differential Forms -- Lie Derivatives -- Lie Groups -- Frobenius Theorem -- Principle Bundles -- Connections on Principle Bundles -- Curvature of a Connection -- Classical Electromagnetism -- Yang-Mills Theory -- Gauge Theory -- The Dirac Monopole -- Instantons -- What Next? -- Discussion of the Exercises.

Sommario/riassunto

This introductory graduate level text provides a relatively quick path to a special topic in classical differential geometry: principal bundles.  While the topic of principal bundles in differential geometry has become classic, even standard, material in the modern graduate mathematics curriculum, the unique approach taken in this text presents the material in a way that is intuitive for both students of mathematics and of physics. The goal of this book is to present important, modern geometric ideas in a form readily accessible to students and researchers in both the physics and mathematics communities, providing each with an understanding and appreciation of the language and ideas of the other.