Here I will add notes of the seminar that I am planning to conduct in School of Mathematics, IISER Thiruvananthapuram, India.
- First lecture is expected to happen on 14 August 2019.
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- Manifold.
- Differential forms on Manifolds; pullbacks and differential of a Differential form.
- Lie group.
- Lie algebra of Lie group.
- Cohomology of Manifolds / Cohomology of Lie groups.
- Principal/Vector bundle.
- Connection (on principal/vector bundle).
- Curvature (of Connection on principal/vector bundle).
- Holonomy group.
- Ambrose-Singer theorem.
- Characteristic classes (Euler/Chern classes).
- The Topology of Fiber Bundles --- Lecture Notes --- Ralph L. Cohen
- WHAT IS A CONNECTION? --- TIMOTHY E. GOLDBERG
- The Topology of Fibre Bundles by Steenrod
- Foundations of Differentiable Manifolds and Lie Groups by Frank Warner
- Foundations of Differential Geometry by Kobayashi and Nomizu
- Introduction to Smooth Manifolds by John Lee
- Geometry of Differential forms by Shigeyuki Morita
- Topics in Differential Geometry by Peter W. Michor
- Differential Geometry - Connections, Curvature, and Characteristic Classes by Loring Tu
- An Introduction to Manifolds by Loring Tu
- Differential Geometry, Lie Groups, and Symmetric Spaces by Sigurdur Helgason
- Differential Forms in Algebraic Topology by Bott and Tu
- A Geometric Approach to Differential Forms by David Bachman
- Modern Differential Geometry for Physicists 2nd Edition by Chris J Isham
- Differential Forms and Connections by R. W. R. Darling
- Differential Forms - A Heuristic Introduction by M. Schreiber
- From Calculus to Cohomology by Madsen and Tornehave
- Manifolds, Sheaves, and Cohomology by Torsten Wedhorn
- Principal Bundles : The Classical Case by Stephen Bruce Sontz
- Introduction to the Theory of Lie Groups by Roger Godement
- Differential Geometry: Bundles, Connections, Metrics and Curvature by Clifford Henry Taubes