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Differential Characters

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Mathematics (LNM, volume 2112)

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Table of contents (2 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
  2. Differential Characters and Geometric Chains

    • Christian Bär, Christian Becker
    Pages 1-90
  3. Relative Differential Cohomology

    • Christian Becker
    Pages 91-180
  4. Back Matter

    Pages 181-189

About this book

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.

 

Keywords

  • 53C08,55N20.
  • Cheeger-Simons differential character
  • Differential cohomology
  • Fiber integration
  • Higher dimensional holonomy
  • Higher gauge theory

Authors and Affiliations

  • Institut für Mathematik, Universität Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

    Christian Bär, Christian Becker

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