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Cohomological physics

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  • Principal Bundle
  • Magnetic Monopole
  • Local Cohomology
  • Weil Algebra
  • Descent Equation

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Stasheff, J. (1988). Cohomological physics. In: Felix, Y. (eds) Algebraic Topology Rational Homotopy. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1318. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0077806

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