It turned out his definitions of fibre bundles are very different to modern ones, even though he's describing exactly the same objects, and I never managed to make his definitions compatible with the gauge theory-based definitions used in modern physics books ).
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In this way, a principal " G "-bundle equipped with a right action is often thought of as part of the data specifying a fibre bundle with structure group " G ", since to a fibre bundle one may construct the principal bundle via the associated bundle construction.
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In this way, a principal " G "-bundle equipped with a right action is often thought of as part of the data specifying a fibre bundle with structure group " G ", since to a fibre bundle one may construct the principal bundle via the associated bundle construction.
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This has important consequences for the differential geometry of fibre bundles : the space of sections of " H " is not a Lie subalgebra of the space of vector fields on " E ", because it is not ( in general ) closed under the Lie bracket of vector fields.
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A yet more complicated, yet more accurate and geometrically enlightening, approach is to understand that the gauge covariant derivative is ( exactly ) the same thing as the exterior covariant derivative on a principal fibre bundle of the gauge theory; and, for the case of spinors, the associated bundle would be a spin bundle of the spin structure.
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For the advanced stuff, it's all over the place-fibre bundles, differential geometry, functional analysis, lie theory, etc . I'd recommend starting out with linear algebra and advanced calculus, then following that into more advanced topics in analysis; most of what you cover will be useful, or at least give you the right type of thinking.
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This map is called the "'classifying map "'of the fibre bundle p : M \ to N since 1 ) the principal bundle G \ to M _ p \ to N is the pull-back of the bundle G \ to EG \ to BG along the classifying map and 2 ) The bundle p is induced from the principal bundle as above.
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I just meant natural as in natural, i . e . neither contrived nor convoluted . ( When I say convoluted I mean convoluted in the regular sense, i . e . nothing to do with integration . ) The definition of a fibre bundle is that for all, and that for any open neighbourhood one has talk ) 05 : 09, 23 January 2011 ( UTC)
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These employ a great deal of differential geometry, and quite a few things that I have not worked much with preveously, such as affine connections, the torsion tensor, parallel transport, affine geodetics, affine flatness, tangent / fibre bundle, sections, Lie derivative, covariant derivative, absolute derivative, Riemann tensor, Ricci tensor, Einstein tensor, Christoffel symbols, Levi-Civita connection, etc.
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This definition clearly respects the cocycle condition on the transition functions, since in each case they are given by the same system of " G "-valued functions . ( Using another local trivialization, and passing to a common refinement if necessary, the " g " ij transform via the same coboundary . ) Hence, by the fiber bundle construction theorem, this produces a fibre bundle " E " & prime; with fibre " F " & prime; as claimed.
