Loop Spaces, Characteristic Classes and Geometric Quantization by Jean-Luc Brylinski.

This book deals with the differential geometry of manifolds, loop spaces, line bundles and groupoids, and the relations of this geometry to mathematical physics. Various developments in mathematical physics (e.g., in knot theory, gauge theory, and topological quantum field theory) have led mathemati...

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Main Author: Brylinski, Jean-Luc (Author)
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Language:English
Published: Boston, MA : Birkhäuser Boston : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 1993.
Edition:1st ed. 1993.
Series:Modern Birkhäuser Classics,
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