The aim of this work is threefold: First it should be a monographical work on natural bundles and natural op erators in differential geometry. This is a field which every differential geometer has met several times, but which is not treated in detail in one place. Let us explain a little, what we mean by naturality. Exterior derivative commutes with the pullback of differential forms. In the background of this statement are the following general concepts. The vector bundle A kT* M is in fact the value of a functor, which associates a bundle over M to each manifold M and a vector bundle homomorphism over f to each local diffeomorphism f between manifolds of the same dimension. This is a simple example of the concept of a natural bundle. The fact that exterior derivative d transforms sections of A kT* M into sections of A k+1T* M for every manifold M can be expressed by saying that d is an operator from A kT* M into A k+1T* M.
| Autorius: | Ivan Kolar, Jan Slovak, Peter W. Michor, |
| Leidėjas: | Springer Berlin Heidelberg |
| Išleidimo metai: | 2010 |
| Knygos puslapių skaičius: | 444 |
| ISBN-10: | 3642081495 |
| ISBN-13: | 9783642081491 |
| Formatas: | Knyga minkštu viršeliu |
| Kalba: | Anglų |
| Žanras: | Differential and Riemannian geometry |
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