Download or read book Connections Curvature and Cohomology Lie groups principal bundles and characteristic classes written by Werner Hildbert Greub and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 2.
Download or read book Differential Geometry written by Loring W. Tu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text presents a graduate-level introduction to differential geometry for mathematics and physics students. The exposition follows the historical development of the concepts of connection and curvature with the goal of explaining the Chern–Weil theory of characteristic classes on a principal bundle. Along the way we encounter some of the high points in the history of differential geometry, for example, Gauss' Theorema Egregium and the Gauss–Bonnet theorem. Exercises throughout the book test the reader’s understanding of the material and sometimes illustrate extensions of the theory. Initially, the prerequisites for the reader include a passing familiarity with manifolds. After the first chapter, it becomes necessary to understand and manipulate differential forms. A knowledge of de Rham cohomology is required for the last third of the text. Prerequisite material is contained in author's text An Introduction to Manifolds, and can be learned in one semester. For the benefit of the reader and to establish common notations, Appendix A recalls the basics of manifold theory. Additionally, in an attempt to make the exposition more self-contained, sections on algebraic constructions such as the tensor product and the exterior power are included. Differential geometry, as its name implies, is the study of geometry using differential calculus. It dates back to Newton and Leibniz in the seventeenth century, but it was not until the nineteenth century, with the work of Gauss on surfaces and Riemann on the curvature tensor, that differential geometry flourished and its modern foundation was laid. Over the past one hundred years, differential geometry has proven indispensable to an understanding of the physical world, in Einstein's general theory of relativity, in the theory of gravitation, in gauge theory, and now in string theory. Differential geometry is also useful in topology, several complex variables, algebraic geometry, complex manifolds, and dynamical systems, among other fields. The field has even found applications to group theory as in Gromov's work and to probability theory as in Diaconis's work. It is not too far-fetched to argue that differential geometry should be in every mathematician's arsenal.
Download or read book Connections Curvature and Cohomology De Rham cohomology of manifolds and vector bundles Vol 2 Lie groups principal bundles and characteristic classes written by Werner Greub and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 984 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Spectral Theory of Random Matrices written by Vyacheslav L. Girko and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spectral Theory of Random Matrices
Download or read book Characteristic Classes written by John Willard Milnor and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theory of characteristic classes provides a meeting ground for the various disciplines of differential topology, differential and algebraic geometry, cohomology, and fiber bundle theory. As such, it is a fundamental and an essential tool in the study of differentiable manifolds. In this volume, the authors provide a thorough introduction to characteristic classes, with detailed studies of Stiefel-Whitney classes, Chern classes, Pontrjagin classes, and the Euler class. Three appendices cover the basics of cohomology theory and the differential forms approach to characteristic classes, and provide an account of Bernoulli numbers. Based on lecture notes of John Milnor, which first appeared at Princeton University in 1957 and have been widely studied by graduate students of topology ever since, this published version has been completely revised and corrected.
Download or read book Connections Curvature and Cohomology Volume 3 written by Werner Greub and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 1976-02-19 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Connections, Curvature, and Cohomology Volume 3
Download or read book Connections Curvature and Cohomology written by Werner Hildbert Greub and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph developed out of the Abendseminar of 1958-1959 at the University of Zürich. The purpose of this monograph is to develop the de Rham cohomology theory, and to apply it to obtain topological invariants of smooth manifolds and fibre bundles. It also addresses the purely algebraic theory of the operation of a Lie algebra in a graded differential algebra.
Download or read book Connections Curvature and Cohomology V1 written by and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 1972-07-31 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Connections, Curvature, and Cohomology V1
Download or read book Lie Groups Lie Algebras Cohomology and Some Applications in Physics written by Josi A. de Azcárraga and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-08-06 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A self-contained introduction to the cohomology theory of Lie groups and some of its applications in physics.
Download or read book Manifolds and Differential Geometry written by Jeffrey Marc Lee and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Differential geometry began as the study of curves and surfaces using the methods of calculus. This book offers a graduate-level introduction to the tools and structures of modern differential geometry. It includes the topics usually found in a course on differentiable manifolds, such as vector bundles, tensors, and de Rham cohomology.
Download or read book Geometry of Characteristic Classes written by Shigeyuki Morita and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Characteristic classes are central to the modern study of the topology and geometry of manifolds. They were first introduced in topology, where, for instance, they could be used to define obstructions to the existence of certain fiber bundles. Characteristic classes were later defined (via the Chern-Weil theory) using connections on vector bundles, thus revealing their geometric side. In the late 1960s new theories arose that described still finer structures. Examples of the so-called secondary characteristic classes came from Chern-Simons invariants, Gelfand-Fuks cohomology, and the characteristic classes of flat bundles. The new techniques are particularly useful for the study of fiber bundles whose structure groups are not finite dimensional. The theory of characteristic classes of surface bundles is perhaps the most developed. Here the special geometry of surfaces allows one to connect this theory to the theory of moduli space of Riemann surfaces, i.e., Teichmüller theory. In this book Morita presents an introduction to the modern theories of characteristic classes.
Download or read book An Introduction to Differentiable Manifolds and Riemannian Geometry written by and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 1975-08-22 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Introduction to Differentiable Manifolds and Riemannian Geometry
Download or read book Connections in Classical and Quantum Field Theory written by L. Mangiarotti and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2000 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geometrical notions and methods play an important role in both classical and quantum field theory, and a connection is a deep structure which apparently underlies the gauge-theoretical models. This collection of basic mathematical facts about various types of connections provides a detailed description of the relevant physical applications. It discusses the modern issues concerning the gauge theories of fundamental interactions. This text presents several levels of complexity, from the elementary to the advanced, and provides a considerable number of exercises. The authors have tried to give all the necessary mathematical background, thus making the book self-contained. This book should be useful to graduate students, physicists and mathematicians who are interested in the issue of deep interrelations between theoretical physics and geometry.
Download or read book The Regulators of Beilinson and Borel written by José Ignacio Burgos Gil and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains a complete proof of the fact that Borel's regulator map is twice Beilinson's regulator map. The strategy of the proof follows the argument sketched in Beilinson's original paper and relies on very similar descriptions of the Chern-Weil morphisms and the van Est isomorphism. The book has two different parts. The first one reviews the material from algebraic topology and Lie group theory needed for the comparison theorem. Topics such as simplicial objects, Hopfalgebras, characteristic classes, the Weil algebra, Bott's Periodicity theorem, Lie algebra cohomology, continuous group cohomology and the van Est Theorem are discussed. The second part contains the comparison theorem and the specific material needed in its proof, such as explicit descriptions of theChern-Weil morphism and the van Est isomorphisms, a discussion about small cosimplicial algebras, and a comparison of different definitions of Borel's regulator.
Download or read book Analysis Manifolds and Physics Revised Edition written by Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat and published by Gulf Professional Publishing. This book was released on 1982 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference book, which has found wide use as a text, provides an answer to the needs of graduate physical mathematics students and their teachers. The present edition is a thorough revision of the first, including a new chapter entitled ``Connections on Principle Fibre Bundles'' which includes sections on holonomy, characteristic classes, invariant curvature integrals and problems on the geometry of gauge fields, monopoles, instantons, spin structure and spin connections. Many paragraphs have been rewritten, and examples and exercises added to ease the study of several chapters. The index includes over 130 entries.
Download or read book An Introduction to Geometrical Physics written by Aldrovandi Ruben and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2016-10-07 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the unifying power of the geometrical language in bringing together concepts from many different areas of physics, ranging from classical physics to the theories describing the four fundamental interactions of Nature -- gravitational, electromagnetic, strong nuclear, and weak nuclear. The book provides in a single volume a thorough introduction to topology and differential geometry, as well as many applications to both mathematical and physical problems. It is aimed as an elementary text and is intended for first year graduate students. In addition to the traditional contents of books on special and general relativities, this book discusses also some recent advances such as de Sitter invariant special relativity, teleparallel gravity and their implications in cosmology for those wishing to reach a higher level of understanding.
Download or read book Foundations of Modern Analysis written by J. Dieudonne and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2011-03-23 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this text, the whole structure of analysis is built up from the foundations. The only things assumed at the outset are the rules of logic and the usual properties of the natural numbers, and with these two exceptions all the proofs in the text rest on the axioms and theorems proved earlier. Nevertheless this treatise (including the first volume) is not suitable for students who have not yet covered the first two years of an undergraduate honours course in mathematics. A striking characteristic of the elementary parts of analysis is the small amount of algebra required. Effectively all that is needed is some elementary linear algebra (which is included in an appendix at the end of the first volume, for the reader’s convenience). However, the role played by algebra increases in the subsequent volumes, and we shall finally leave the reader at the point where this role becomes preponderant, notably with the appearance of advanced commutative algebra and homological algebra. As reference books in algebra we have taken R. Godement’s “Abstract Algebra,” and S. A. Lang’s “Algebra” which we shall possibly augment in certain directions by means of appendices. As with the first volume, I have benefited greatly during the preparation of this work from access to numerous unpublished manuscripts of N. Bourbaki and his collaborators. To them alone is due any originality in the presentation of certain topics.
