Loop Spaces, Characteristic Classes and Geometric Quantization

Brylinski Jean-Luc

ISBN 10: 0817647309 / ISBN 13: 9780817647308

Verlag: Springer, 2007

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Print on Demand pp. 320 49:B&W 6.14 x 9.21 in or 234 x 156 mm (Royal 8vo) Perfect Bound on White w/Gloss Lam.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 7547598

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Loop Spaces, Characteristic Classes and Geometric Quantization
• Verlag: Springer
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0817647309
• ISBN-13: 9780817647308
• Einband: Softcover
• Zustand: New

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Inhaltsangabe

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, Kähler 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.

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This book deals with the differential geometry of manifolds, loop spaces, line bundles and groupoids, and the relations of this geometry to mathematical physics.

Various developments in mathematical physics (e.g., in knot theory, gauge theory, and topological quantum field theory) have led mathematicians and physicists to search for new geometric structures on manifolds and to seek a synthesis of ideas from geometry, topology and category theory. In this spirit, this book develops the differential geometry associated to the topology and obstruction theory of certain fiber bundles (more precisely, associated to grebes). The theory is a 3-dimensional analog of the familiar Kostant--Weil theory of line bundles. In particular the curvature now becomes a 3-form.

Applications presented in the book involve anomaly line bundles on loop spaces and anomaly functionals, central extensions of loop groups, Kähler geometry of the space of knots, Cheeger--Chern--Simons secondary characteristics classes, and group cohomology. Finally, the last chapter deals with the Dirac monopole and Dirac's quantization of the electrical charge.

The book will be of interest to topologists, geometers, Lie theorists and mathematical physicists, as well as to operator algebraists. It is written for graduate students and researchers, and will be an excellent textbook. It has a self-contained introduction to the theory of sheaves and their cohomology, line bundles and geometric prequantization à la Kostant--Souriau.