The geometry of physics. An introduction

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Authors: Theodore Frankel 

Publication date: 1997

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zbMATH Keywords

symmetryclassical electrodynamicsDirac operatorgauge theoryMorse theoryYang-Mills theoryrelativityAharonov-Bohm effectBerry phaseclassical mechanicstopological quantizationsingular homologymathematical methodsphenomenological thermodynamicsdifferential form calculusgeometry of physics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Differential forms in global analysis (58A10) Applications of global analysis to the sciences (58Z05) Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to global analysis (58-01)

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