Differential Geometry for Physicists (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789810231057)

This book is divided into fourteen chapters, with 18 appendices as introduction to prerequisite topological and algebraic knowledge, etc. The first seven chapters focus on local analysis. This part can be used as a fundamental textbook for graduate students of theoretical physics. Chapters 8-10 discuss geometry on fibre bundles, which facilitates further reference for researchers. The last four chapters deal with the Atiyah-Singer index theorem, its generalization and its application, quantum anomaly, cohomology field theory and noncommutative geometry, giving the reader a glimpse of the frontier of current research in theoretical physics.

Author: Bo-Yu Hou, Bo-Yuan Hou
ISBN-10: 9810231059
ISBN-13: 9789810231057
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Language: English
Published: 11/04/1997
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.97lbs
Size: 8.92h x 6.30w x 1.32d