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Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991003265549707536

Autore

Bär, Christian

Titolo

Differential characters [e-book] / Christian Bär, Christian Becker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham [Switzerland] : Springer, 2014

ISBN

9783319070346

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 187 pages)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 1617-9692 ; 2112

Classificazione

AMS 53C08

AMS 55N20

LC QA3.L28

Altri autori (Persone)

Becker, Christianauthor

Disciplina

514.23

Soggetti

Algebraic topology

Global differential geometry

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Differential characters and geometric chains ; Relative differential cohomology

Sommario/riassunto

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