Lectures on Chern-Weil Theory and Witten Deformations

ISBN: 9789810246860

出版社: World Scientific Pub Co Inc

出版年: 2001-9

页数: 132

定价: 187.00元

装帧: Pap

内容简介

Based on the notes of a graduate course on differential geometry which the author gave at the Nankai Institute of Mathematics, this volume consists of two parts: the first part contains an introduction to the geometric theory of characteristic classes due to Shiing-shen Chern and Andr 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 Poincar-Hopf index formula, as well as the Morse inequalities based on deformations introduced by Edward Witten.