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Название: Topology, Geometry and Gauge Fields
Автор: Naber G.L.
Аннотация:
This book covers topology and geometry beginning with an accessible account of the extraordinary and rather mysterious impact of mathematical physics, especially gauge theory, on the study of the geometry and topology of manifolds. Much of the mathematics developed in the book to study the classical field theories of physics (de Rham cohomology, Chern classes, Semi-Riemannian manifolds, Cech cohomology, spinors etc. ) is standard, but the treatment always keeps one eye on the physics and unhesitatingly sacrifices generality to clarity. The author brings the reader up to the level needed to conclude with a brief discussion of the Seiberg-Witten invariants. Although this volume can be read independently Naber carries on the program initiated in his earlier volume, Topology, Geometry and Gauge Fields: Foundations, Springer, 1997, and writes in much the same spirit with precisely the same philosophical motivation. A large number of exercises are included to encourage active participation on the part of the reader.
, , stereographic projection charts4 Chern class4563352 Chern number68 Stiefel — Whitney class397 Chern class46138 Chern number46138 Stiefel — Whitney class401 , action functional55 , -tensor product232 , fundamental vector field35 , Cech j-coboundaries of 393 , Cech j-cochain group390391 -manifold1 -map2 -related1 , real-valued -functions on X1 , Chern class of P352 , Chern class of P377 9 , exterior derivative of 247256 , exterior differentiation operator247 , unit disc in 289 , covariant exterior derivative51 , covariant exterior derivative of 261 , Seiberg — Witten action415 , map induced in cohomology303 , derivative of f at p2 , left action of g on p26 , principal G-bundle over X29 , linear frame bundle173 , horizontal vectors at p in P36 , Cech cohomology group of X397 , Cech cohomology group of 393 , cohomology group of 319 , de Rham cohomology group of X63298 358 , monopole number152 , nerve of 390 , orthonormal frame bundle of X182 , right action of g on p26 , direct sum of the 356 , associated bundle47 , homogeneous polynomials of degree k on 356 , -invariant subspace of 358 , direct sum of the 358 , intersection form on X339 , direct sum of the 355 , oriented, orthonormal frame bundle of X184 408 -structure410 , -structure410 , complex-valued symmetric k-multilinear maps on 355 , -invariant subspace of 358 , elementary symmetric polynomials360 , direct sum of the 358 , pullback208230240 , cotangent bundle of X179 , cotangent space at p9 , vertical vectors at p in P35 , horizontal part of V36 , vertical part of V36 , Cech j-cocycles of 393 , orientation class of 8 234 263 , -wedge product232 , velocity vector to at 2 , characteristic function of M275 , coboundary operator391 , Minkowski matrix58 , Minkowski metric components57 , , , , Dirac matrices96 , cochain of forms on X320 , k-forms on E209 , k-forms with values in 231 , real-valued k-forms on X127238 , -valued differential k-forms on X257 , tensorial forms of type on P257 , inner product on 179 , inner product on forms127 , gauge potential3654 , BPST potential42163 , Einstein cylinder204 , deSitter spacetime202 , Einstein — deSitter spacetime200 , gauge field strength4354163 617 , Lie algebra of the Lie group G16 , multilinear maps on E208 , Lorentz group82180 , proper, orthochronous Lorentz group82188 , oriented, time oriented, orthonormal frame bundle of X197 , smooth vector fields on X7 , smooth 1-forms on X9 , Yang — Mills action46135 , Dirac operator94 , projective spaces5 , Minkowski spacetime57179 179 289 , covariant derivative411 , Dirac operator411 , Stiefel — Whitney class of X397 , Stiefel — Whitney class of X401 , BPST connection42136 , tensor product10209 D, boundary of D289 , left action26 -tensor product232 -wedge product232 , left action by g26 , right action2528 -algebra272 , , , Pauli spin matrices18 , right action by g26 , left action on p35 9 , , Levi-Civita symbols59 , Levi-Civita symbol227 6 , wedge product11210 , -wedge product13232 360 , support of the simplex 390 1-form9 1-form, left-invariant19 1-form, real-valued9 1-form, restriction10 2-valued representation88 < , >, inner product on 5 a.e., almost everywhere275 Action functional55 Action functional, Seiberg — Witten415 Action, effective26 Action, free26 Action, left26 Action, right25 Action, transitive26 ad P, adjoint bundle49 ad(G)-invariant24 Adjoint bundle49 Adjoint representation24 Admissible basis189 Algebraic homotopy254305320 Almost everywhere275 Alt(A)211 Anti-self-dual (ASD)135 Antiparticle75 Antipodal map343 ASD, anti-self-dual135