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1、ThispageintentionallyleftblankDIFFERENTIALGEOMETRYANDLIEGROUPSFORPHYSICISTSDifferentialgeometryplaysanincreasinglyimportantroleinmoderntheoreticalphysicsandappliedmathematics.Thistextbookgivesanintroductiontogeometricaltopicsusefulintheoreticalphysicsandappliedmathematics,includingmanifolds,
2、tensor?elds,differentialforms,connections,symplecticgeometry,actionsofLiegroups,bundlesandspinors.Havingwrittenitinaninformalstyle,theauthorgivesastrongemphasisondevelopingtheunderstandingofthegeneraltheorythroughmorethan1000simpleexercises,withcompletesolutionsordetailedhints.Thebookwillpre
3、parereadersforstudyingmoderntreatmentsofLagrangianandHamiltonianmechanics,electromagnetism,gauge?elds,relativityandgravitation.DifferentialGeometryandLieGroupsforPhysicistsiswellsuitedforcoursesinphysics,mathematicsandengineeringforadvancedundergraduateorgraduatestudents,andcanalsobeusedfora
4、ctiveself-study.Therequiredmathematicalbackgroundknowledgedoesnotgobeyondthelevelofstandardintroductoryundergraduatemathematicscourses.MarianFecko′,currentlyattheDepartmentofTheoreticalPhysics,ComeniusUni-versity,Bratislava,SlovakiaandattheInstituteofPhysics,SlovakAcademyofSciences,Bratislav
5、a,worksonapplicationsofdifferentialgeometryinphysics.Hehasover15years’experiencelecturingonmathematicalphysicsandteachingcoursesondifferentialgeometryandLiegroups.DIFFERENTIALGEOMETRYANDLIEGROUPSFORPHYSICISTSMARIANFECKO′ComeniusUniversity,Bratislava,SlovakiaandSlovakAcademyofSciences,Bratisl
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7、521845076?M.Fecko2006Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexceptionandtotheprovisionofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements,noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewrittenpermissionofCambridgeUniversityPress.Firstpublishedinprintform