Exotic Smoothness And Physics : Differential Topology And Spacetime Models.
The recent revolution in differential topology related to the discovery of non-standard ("exotic") smoothness structures on topologically trivial manifolds such as R4 suggests many exciting opportunities for applications of potentially deep importance for the spacetime models of theoretica...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Singapore :
World Scientific,
2007.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface; Contents; 1. Introduction and Background; 2. Algebraic Tools for Topology; 3. Smooth Manifolds, Geometry; 4. Bundles, Geometry, Gauge Theory; 5. Gauge Theory and Moduli Space; 6. A Guide to the Classification of Manifolds; 7. Early Exotic Manifolds; 8. The First Results in Dimension Four; 9. Seiberg-Witten Theory: The Modern Approach; 10. Physical Implications; 11. From Differential Structures to Operator Algebras and Geometric Structures; Bibliography; Index.