Differential Characters
| By: | Christian Bär; Christian Becker |
| Publisher: | Springer Nature |
| Print ISBN: | 9783319070339 |
| eText ISBN: | 9783319070346 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 2014 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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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.