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Differential Characters

Differential Characters

Description

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.

Keywords

MathematicsGeometryDifferentialTopology

2014Book

Author(s)Christian Becker, Christian Bär

PublisherSpringer International Publishing

ISBN9783319070339

LanguageEnglish

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