Topology, Geometry and Gauge fields Interactions /

• Main Author: Naber, Gregory L. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2011.
• Series: Applied Mathematical Sciences, 141
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Geometry.; Combinatorics.; Physics.; Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics.

This volume is intended to carry on the program, initiated in Topology, Geometry, and Gauge Fields: Foundations (Springer, 2010), of exploring the interrelations between particle physics and topology that arise from their shared notion of a gauge field. The text begins with a synopsis of the geometr...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Geometrical Background
• Physical Motivation
• Frame Bundles and Spacetime
• Differential Forms and Integration Introduction
• de Rham Cohomology Introduction
• Characteristic Classes
• Appendix
• References
• Symbols
• Index.