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Table of contents (2 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
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Institut für Mathematik, Universität Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
Christian Bär, Christian Becker
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Differential Characters
Authors: Christian Bär, Christian Becker
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Mathematics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07034-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-07033-9Published: 15 August 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-07034-6Published: 31 July 2014
Series ISSN: 0075-8434
Series E-ISSN: 1617-9692
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 187
Topics: Differential Geometry, Algebraic Topology