Differential Characters

• Main Authors: Bär, Christian (Author), Becker, Christian (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 2112
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Differential geometry.; Algebraic topology.; Differential Geometry.; Algebraic Topology.

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 w...

Table of Contents:

• Differential Characters and Geometric Chains
• Relative differential Cohomology
• Index.