Differential geometry and mathematical physics. II: Fibre bundles, topology and gauge fields
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Differential geometry and mathematical physics. II: Fibre bundles, topology and gauge fields
zbMATH Open document ID: 1364.53001
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-024-0959-8
author: Gerd Rudolph
author: Matthias Schmidt
published in: Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (Cham)
publication date: 2016-09-09T00:00:00Z
review text: This book is the second part of a two-volume series on differential geometry and mathematical physics, for Part I see [the authors, Differential geometry and mathematical physics. I: Manifolds, Lie groups and Hamiltonian systems. Dordrecht: Springer (2013; Zbl 1259.53003)]. In the first five chapters, general topics of advanced differential geometry -- in particular, fibre bundles -- and analysis on manifolds are studied; including connections, Hodge theory, homotopy theory, the Whitney sum formula, de Rham cohomology, Dirac operators and Sobolev spaces on manifolds, and the Atiyah-Singer index theorem. The remaining four chapters are devoted to the ultimate goal of the series, gauge theory; topics include geometric models for gauge theories and matter fields, the Yang-Mills equation, the Seiberg-Witten model, gauge orbit stratification, and Faddeev-Popov path integral quantization. The latter chapters contain results by the authors on the classification of gauge orbit types and on non-perturbative quantum gauge theory. Additional background on relevant topics in algebraic topology and analysis on manifolds is provided in the appendix. The book is written in the style of a mathematical textbook. The treatment is modern, extensive and rigorous, and classical topics and results of differential geometry (e.g., geodesics, the Gauß-Bonnet theorem) are presented as special cases and corollaries of that general theory. Similarly, classical topics of theoretical physics (e.g., the standard model of elementary particle physics) are placed in a general geometric context and language. The book is addressed to scholars and researchers in differential geometry and mathematical physics, as well as to advanced graduate students who have studied the material covered in the first part of the series. The reader will benefit from remarks and examples in the text, and from the substantial number of exercises at the end of each section.
reviewed by: Pascal Philipp
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53-01
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53C05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53C27
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53C80
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 57R22
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 70S15
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 81T13
zbMATH DE Number: 6626023
zbMATH Keywords: fibre bundles
zbMATH Keywords: connections
zbMATH Keywords: Hodge theory
zbMATH Keywords: homotopy theory
zbMATH Keywords: cohomology
zbMATH Keywords: Clifford algebras
zbMATH Keywords: spin structures
zbMATH Keywords: Dirac operators
zbMATH Keywords: gauge theory
zbMATH Keywords: Yang-Mills equation
zbMATH Keywords: matter fields
zbMATH Keywords: analysis on manifolds
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