Differential Geometry, Gauge Theories, and Gravity
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"...a very beautifully and elegantly written introduction to those areas of modern differential geometry that either now play, or presumably will play, a role in particle physics and general relativity." SIAM Review
Product details
July 1989Paperback
9780521378215
244 pages
230 × 153 × 18 mm
0.4kg
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. Exterior algebra
- 2. Differential forms on open subsets of Rn
- 3. Metric structures
- 4. Gauge theories
- 5. Einstein–Cartan theory
- 6. The Lie derivative
- 7. Manifolds
- 8. Lie groups
- 9. Fibre bundles
- 10. Monopoles, instantons, and related fibre bundles
- 11. Spin
- 12. An algebraic approach to anomalies
- 13. Anomalies from graphs
- References
- Bibliography
- Notation
- Index.