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Kronecker first limit formula, 490






Künneth formula, 199–200







L






Laplacian, 254






elliptic complex, 410






Hermitian manifold, 294






Kähler manifold, 295






Riemann surface, 465–6






Left-invariant vector field, 170, 329






Left-translation, 170






Letter, 102






Levi-Civita connection, 209, 214, 221–3, 240, 247–9






classical differential geometry, 223






Levi-Civita symbol, 160






Lie algebra, 172–3, 329–30






Lie bracket, 154






Lie derivative, 153–7, 163–4






Lie group, 167–70, 221, 305, 324–5, 329–30






Light cone frame, 206






Lightlike, 205, 236






Line bundle, 314, 387






holomorphic, 463






Linear function, 43






Linear map, 43






Linear space, 43






Linearly dependent, 43






Linearly independent, 43, 64






Abelian group, 64






vector space, 43






Liquid crystal, 24–5






defects, 121–5






nematic, 25






Little group, 181






Local connection form, 332–6






Local frame, 246–7






Local section, 305, 307






Local trivialisation, 305






London limit, 22






Loop, 90, 114






Lorentz condition, 186, 255






Lorentz manifold, 206






Lorentz metric, 205







M






Magnetic monopole, 14–17






Berry's phase, 370






Dirac, 14






Dirac quantisation condition, 16






principal bundle, 320, 335, 355–6, 386






Wu–Yang, 15, 371






Manifold, 131–40






differentiable, 133






with a boundary, 134, 429






Map, 35






linear, 43






Mapping class group (MCG), 470






Matrix group, 168






Maurer–Cartan form, 176






Maurer–Cartan's structure equation, 176






Maximally symmetric space, 241






Maxwell action, 355






Maxwell's equation, 10, 14, 255, 355






Mellin transformation, 428, 430






Mermin–Ho vortex, 127






Metric, 49






Metric compatible, 214, 247, 285






Metric connection, 214, 351






Metric space, 49






Metric tensor, 27






Milne universe, 239






Minkowski metric, 205






Möbius strip, 39, 165, 308, 328






fundamental group, 112






homology group, 79






Moduli space,






gauge theory, 446






Polyakov string, 470, 487






Modular group (MG), 470






Modular parameter, 270






Modular transformation, 270







N






Nambu action, 32, 262






Naturality, 379, 382, 384, 387






Neighbourhood, 50






open, 50






Nijenhuis tensor field, 298–300






Non-coordinate basis, 145, 243–5






Non-orientable, 39






Normal bundle, 314






Normal coordinate system, 228






Normal subgroup, 42, 169


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