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Based on the notes of a graduate course on differential geometry, this volume contains an introduction to the geometric theory of characteristic classes due to Shiing-shen Chern and Andr Weil, as well as presenting the Morse inequalities based on deformations introduced by Edward Witten.
Lectures On Chern-weil Theory And Witten Deformations
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132 pages
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25 September 2001
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Based on the notes of a graduate course on differential geometry which the author gave at the Nankai Institute of Mathematics, this volume consists of two parts: the first part contains an introduction to the geometric theory of characteristic classes due to Shiing-shen Chern and Andr Weil, as well as a proof of the Gauss-Bonnet-Chern theorem based on the Mathai-Quillen construction of Thom forms; the second part presents analytic proofs of the Poincar-Hopf index formula, as well as the Mo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9789810246860 |
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| ISBN-10: | 9810246862 |
| Author: | Weiping Zhang |
| Publisher: | World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd |
| Imprint: | World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 132 |
| Release Date: | 25 September 2001 |
| Weight: | 195g |
| Dimensions: | 5mm x 158mm x 214mm |
| Series: | Nankai Tracts in Mathematics |
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