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- From: benzvi@riemann.geom.umn.edu (David Ben-zvi)
- Subject: Re: Fibre Bundle Theory
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- In article <s#T-+B+@engin.umich.edu> pradeep@engin.umich.edu (Pradeep Jain) writes:
- >Hi,
- >
- >I understand that Fibre Bundle Theory is about formulating geometric
- >problems as Fibre Bundle Theoritic problems (and then as algebric
- >problems?). Can someone please give me some introductory refrences to
- >Fibre Bundle Theory? I would greatly appreciate the help. Also, what
- >are the pre-requisites for gaining an understanding of Fibre Bundle
- >Theory?
- >
- >Thanks in advance.
- >
- >Pradeep
- >
-
- Here are some (rather standard) texts on Fibre Bundles.
- It is recommended that the reader be somewhat familiar with the
- rudiments of Algebraic Topology (i.e. has seen homology before, and
- most certainly knows about the fundamental group),
- though most of these books cover the essentials:
-
- Steenrod, The Topology of Fibre Bundles. This is the original text
- on the subject, from its founder. Somewhat old-fashioned, but classic.
- Princeton University Press.
- Milnor, Characteristic Classes. Develops the theory of vector bundles (probably
- the most important fibre bundles) through the use of (the title),
- which are algebraic measures of the twisting of a bundle.
- Beautifully written, with an excellent introduction to cohomology
- as an appendix, and a summary of Thom's cobordism theory,
- Chern classes, the Hirzebruch signature theorem and the Chern-Weil
- thoery relating characteristic classes to curvature.
- Annals of Math Studies.
- Bott&Tu, Differential Forms in Algebraic Topology. Another great book
- which introduces deRham cohomology (no real knowledge of homology
- necessary), and uses it to explore various topics in topology,
- with a lot of fibre bundles (mainly vector and sphere bundles)
- and reaching all the way to spectral sequences in homotopy
- theory, the Grothendieck approach to characteristic classes,
- and other wonders of the field. Springer-Verlag, Graduate
- Texts in Mathematics (everyone's favorite yellow books).
- Husemoller, Fibre Bundles (2nd Edition). I don't know much about this
- book, but it has been recommended to me.. Graduate Texts
- in Math #20.
- Spanier, Algebraic Topology. The hard-core algebraic topology text. Covers
- a lot of Fibre Bundle theory. Extremely condense, thorough
- and abstract (unless you've seen Grothendieck's EGA!!), and covers
- some rather beautiful ideas (e.g. the Brown representability Theorem).
- Recommended for the head-banging hard hitting mathematician in
- all of us. (?!)
-
- Good Fibrations, (sorry!)
- David Ben-Zvi
-
- an overwhelming urge for abstraction and generality
-
-