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David Bleecker
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ISBN: 0486445461
Page Count: 208
Dimensions: 5 3/8 x 8 1/2
Detailed and self-contained, this text supplements its rigor with intuitive ideas and is geared toward beginning graduate students and advanced undergraduates. Topics include principal fiber bundles and connections; curvature; particle fields, Lagrangians, and gauge invariance; inhomogeneous field equations; free Dirac electron fields; calculus on frame bundle; and unification of gauge fields and gravitation. 1981 edition
Republication of the Reading, MA, 1981 edition.

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