Publication

1994 - Springer-Verlag, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

88,250 words, Guess

Page Count

353 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing2554078
  • Goodreads2324275

Classifications

  • DDC514/.224
  • LCCQA612.6 .H87 1993
  • LCCQA612-612.8

Description

Fibre bundles play an important role in just about every aspect of modern geometry and topology. Basic properties, homotopy classification, and characteristic classes of fibre bundles have become an essential part of graduate mathematical education for students in geometry and mathematical physics. In this third edition two new chapters on the gauge group of a bundle and on the differential forms representing characteristic classes of complex vector bundles on manifolds have been added. These chapters result from the important role of the gauge group in mathematical physics and the continual usefulness of characteristic classes defined with connections on vector bundles.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Graduate texts in mathematics ;
  • 20

Other Editions

  • Fibre bundlesSpringer-Verlag1994-01-01
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