Lectures on Chern-Weil theory and Witten deformations:

This invaluable book is based on the notes of a graduate course on differential geometry which the author gave at the Nankai Institute of Mathematics. It consists of two parts: the first part contains an introduction to the geometric theory of characteristic classes due to Shiing-shen Chern and Andr...

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Main Author: Zhang, Weiping 1964- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore World Scientific Pub. Co. c2001
Series:Nankai tracts in mathematics v. 4
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Summary:This invaluable book is based on the notes of a graduate course on differential geometry which the author gave at the Nankai Institute of Mathematics. It consists of two parts: the first part contains an introduction to the geometric theory of characteristic classes due to Shiing-shen Chern and André 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 Poincaré-Hopf index formula, as well as the Morse inequalities based on deformations introduced by Edward Witten
Physical Description:xi, 117 p
ISBN:9789812386588