Book Details
Format
Hardcover
Pages
237
Language
English
Published
Mar 18, 2004
Publisher
Springer
ISBN-10
038720430X
ISBN-13
9780387204307
Description
This book offers an introduction to the theory of differentiable manifolds and fiber bundles. It examines bundles from the point of view of metric differential Euclidean bundles, Riemannian connections, curvature, and Chern-Weil theory are discussed, including the Pontrjagin, Euler, and Chern characteristic classes of a vector bundle. These concepts are illustrated in detail for bundles over spheres.