Saturday 16 September 2017

Lecture 19 - Principal Fibre Bundles (Schuller's Geometric Anatomy of Theoretical Physics)

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Summary of contents: left and right Lie group actions; example: actions from representations; proof: right actions from left actions; equivariance of smooth maps; orbits, orbit space and stabilisers; free and transitive actions; examples; smooth and principal bundles; detailed example: the frame bundle; principal bundle morphisms and isomorphisms (or diffeomorphisms); trivial bundles; proof that a bundle is trivial if and only if it admits a global section.

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