Differential Characters [electronic resource] / by Christian Bär, Christian Becker.
Material type: TextSeries: Lecture Notes in Mathematics ; 2112Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014Description: VIII, 187 p. online resourceContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9783319070346
- 516.36 23
- QA641-670
Differential 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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