| Loop Spaces, Characteristic Classes and Geometric Quantization Contributor(s): Brylinski, Jean-Luc (Author) |
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ISBN: 0817647309 ISBN-13: 9780817647308 Publisher: Birkhauser OUR PRICE: $75.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2007 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Mathematics | Geometry - Differential - Mathematics | Topology - General - Science | Physics - Mathematical & Computational |
| Dewey: 514.24 |
| LCCN: 2007936854 |
| Series: Modern Birkhauser Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (0.95 lbs) 302 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book examines the differential geometry of manifolds, loop spaces, line bundles and groupoids, and the relations of this geometry to mathematical physics. Applications presented in the book involve anomaly line bundles on loop spaces and anomaly functionals, central extensions of loop groups, K hler geometry of the space of knots, and Cheeger--Chern--Simons secondary characteristics classes. It also covers the Dirac monopole and Dirac's quantization of the electrical charge. |