Differential Topology of Fiber Bundles
by Karl-Hermann Neeb
Publisher: FAU Erlangen-Nuernberg 2010
Number of pages: 146
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From the table of contents: Basic Concepts (The concept of a fiber bundle, Coverings, Morphisms...); Bundles and Cocycles; Cohomology of Lie Algebras; Smooth G-valued Functions; Connections on Principal Bundles; Curvature; Perspectives.
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