Fibre bundles play an important role in every aspect of modern geometry and topology. Basic properties, homotopy classification, and characteristic classes of fibre bundles have become an essential part of graduate mathematical education for students in geometry and mathematical physics. In this third edition, two new chapters on the gauge group of a bundle and on the differential forms representing characteristic classes of complex vector bundles on manifolds have been added. These chapters result from the important role of the gauge group in mathematical physics and the continual usefulness of characteristic classes defined with connections on vector bundles.
- ISBN10 0387901035
- ISBN13 9780387901039
- Publish Date 24 September 1982
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 2 June 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Springer
- Edition 2nd ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 327
- Language English