Smooth manifolds and fibre bundles with applications to theoretical physics /

This book provides a systematic presentation of the mathematical foundation of modern physics with applications particularly within classical mechanics and the theory of relativity. Written to be self-contained, Smooth Manifolds and Fibre Bundles with Applications to Theoretical Physics provides com...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Johannesen, Steinar (Author)
Corporate Author:	Taylor & Francis
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Boca Raton : CRC Press, [2017]
Series:	A Chapman & Hall book
Subjects:	Manifolds (Mathematics) Fiber bundles (Mathematics) Differential equations. Lie groups. Variétés (Mathématiques) Faisceaux fibrés (Mathématiques) Équations différentielles. Groupes de Lie. Differential equations Lie groups Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Introduction
Smooth manifolds and vector bundles
Vector fields and differential equations
Tensors
Differential forms
Integration on manifolds
Metric and symplectic structures
Lie groups
Group actions
Fibre bundles
Isometric immersions and the second fundamental form
Jet bundles.