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.
| ISBN: | 9783319070339 |
| Publication date: | 15th August 2014 |
| Author: | Christian Bär, Christian Becker |
| Publisher: | Springer an imprint of Springer International Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 187 pages |
| Series: | Lecture Notes in Mathematics |
| Genres: |
Differential and Riemannian geometry Algebraic topology |