Smooth manifolds and observables
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Smooth manifolds and observables
(Graduate texts in mathematics, 220)
Springer, c2020
2nd ed
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 423-425) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book gives an introduction to fiber spaces and differential operators on smooth manifolds. Over the last 20 years, the authors developed an algebraic approach to the subject and they explain in this book why differential calculus on manifolds can be considered as an aspect of commutative algebra. This new approach is based on the fundamental notion of observable which is used by physicists and will further the understanding of the mathematics underlying quantum field theory.
Table of Contents
Foreword.- Preface.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Cutoff and Other Special Smooth Functions on R^n.- 3. Algebras and Points.- 4. Smooth Manifolds (Algebraic Definition).- 5. Charts and Atlases.- 6. Smooth Maps.- 7. Equivalence of Coordinate and Algebraic Definitions.- 8. Points, Spectra and Ghosts.- 9. The Differential Calculus as Part of Commutative Algebra.- 10. Symbols and the Hamiltonian Formalism.- 11. Smooth Bundles.- 12. Vector Bundles and Projective Modules.- 13. Localization.- 14. Differential 1-forms and Jets.- 15. Functors of the differential calculus and their representations.- 16. Cosymbols, Tensors, and Smoothness.- 17. Spencer Complexes and Differential Forms.- 18. The (co)chain complexes that come from the Spencer Sequence.- 19. Differential forms: classical and algebraic approach.- 20. Cohomology.- 21. Differential operators over graded algebras.- Afterword.- Appendix.- References.- Index.
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