This two-volume monograph obtains fundamental notions and results of the standard differential geometry of smooth (CINFINITY) manifolds, without using differential calculus. Here, the sheaf-theoretic character is emphasised. This has theoretical advantages such as greater perspective, clarity and unification, but also practical benefits ranging from elementary particle physics, via gauge theories and theoretical cosmology (`differential spaces'), to non-linear PDEs (generalised functions). Thus, more general applications, which are no longer `smooth' in the classical sense, can be coped with. The treatise might also be construed as a new systematic endeavour to confront the ever-increasing notion that the `world around us is far from being smooth enough'.
Audience: This work is intended for postgraduate students and researchers whose work involves differential geometry, global analysis, analysis on manifolds, algebraic topology, sheaf theory, cohomology, functional analysis or abstract harmonic analysis.
Audience: This work is intended for postgraduate students and researchers whose work involves differential geometry, global analysis, analysis on manifolds, algebraic topology, sheaf theory, cohomology, functional analysis or abstract harmonic analysis.
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Audience: This work is intended for postgraduate students and researchers whose work involves differential geometry, global analysis, analysis on manifolds, algebraic topology, sheaf theory, cohomology, functional analysis or abstract harmonic analysis.
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Two. Geometry.- VI. Geometry of Vector Sheaves. A-connections.- VII. A-connections. Local Theory.- VIII. Curvature.- IX. Characteristic Classes.- Three. Examples and Applications.- X. Classical Theory.- XI. Sheaves and Presheaves with Topological Algebraic Structures.- Notational Index.
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ISBN
9780792350064
Publisert
1998-04-30
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Springer
Høyde
244 mm
Bredde
170 mm
Aldersnivå
Research, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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