This reference book, which has found wide use as a text, provides an answer to the needs of graduate physical mathematics students and their teachers. The present edition is a thorough revision of the first, including a new chapter entitled ``Connections on Principle Fibre Bundles'' which includes sections on holonomy, characteristic classes, invariant curvature integrals and problems on the geometry of gauge fields, monopoles, instantons, spin structure and spin connections. Many paragraphs have been rewritten, and examples and exercises added to ease the study of several chapters. The index includes over 130 entries.
- ISBN10 0080933564
- ISBN13 9780080933566
- Publish Date 1 September 2004 (first published 1 May 1982)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country NL
- Imprint North-Holland
- Edition 2nd ed.
- Format eBook
- Pages 656
- Language English