Differential characters / by Christian Bär, Christian Becker.
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TextSeries: Lecture notes in mathematics (Springer-Verlag) ; 2112.Publication details: Cham : Springer, 2014.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 187 pages)Content type: - text
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Differential Characters and Geometric Chains -- Relative differential Cohomology.
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.
Includes index.