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Euler class, 393–5






Euler–Poincaré theorem, 86






Euler's theorem, 57






Even bundle, 411






Exact form, 162






Exponentiation, 152






Extension, of a linear operator, 274






Exterior derivative, 160–2






adjoint operator, 253






Exterior product, 159







F






Face, 66






proper, 66






Faddeev–Popov (FP) ghost, 445–7






Fibre, 304–5






dimension, 313






metric, 316






Fibre bundle, 305–8






reconstruction, 308–9






Field strength, 344






Field tensor, 10–13






electromagnetic, 10, 162






Yang–Mills, 12






Finitely generated Abelian group, 64–6






fundamental theorem, 65






Form, 158






Frame, 315






Frame bundle, 325–6, 349






Lorentz, 326






Fredholm operator, 409






Free Abelian group, 64






Free group, 102–4






Fubini–Study metric, 290, 387






Fuchsian group, 486






Fujikawa's method, 436–41






Function, 143






Fundamental group, 93–9






polyhedron, 102–13






Fundamental vector field, 330







G






G bundle, 319






Gauge potential, 335






Gauge slice, 469






Gauge theory, 10–14






Abelian, 10, 354–5






and principal bundle, 354–64






non-Abelian, 12, 359






three-dimensional, 401






Gauge transformation, 10, 335






Gauss–Bonnet theorem, 59, 394, 414






Gauss' theorem, 191






General relativity, 27–9, 257






Generating functional, 6, 7, 9






Generator, 64






Abelian group, 64






free set of, 102






Genus, 40, 461






Geodesic, 211






Livi-Civita connection, 223–7






Ginzburg–Landau free energy, 22






condensation, 22






gradient, 22






Grassmann variable, 8, 33, 438






Grassmannian manifold






complex, 271–2, 384






real, 138–9, 182–4







H






Handedness, 165






Harmonic form, 255–7, 294, 417






Harmonic map, 263






Hausdorff space, 50






Heat equation, 426






Heat kernel, 425, 466






regularisation, 439






Helicity, 463






Hermitian connection, 285, 353






Hermitian manifold, 282






Hermitian metric, 281–2






Hermitian structure, 353






Higgs field, 13






Higher homotopy group, 113–18






Hirzebruch L-polynomial, 396, 420






Hirzebruch–Riemann–Roch theorem, 416






Hirzebruch signature, 397, 417






theorem, 397, 420






Hodge decomposition theorem, 255–6






Hodge diamond, 295–6






Hodge number, 295, 416






Hodge star operation, 250–2






Hermitian manifold, 293






inverse, 252


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