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Null section, 316






Null vector, 205, 236







O






Odd bundle, 411






One-form, 146






One-parameter group of






transformations, 152






One-parameter subgroup, 173–5






One-point compactification, 52






One-to-one. 36






Onto, 36






Open set, 48






Orbifold, 300–2






Orbit, 180






Order, of differential operator, 407






Order parameter, 19–26






space, 121






Orientable, 39, 165, 283






first Stiefel–Whitney class, 404






Orientation, 164






Orthogonal complement, 44






Orthogonal group, 168






Orthonormal frame, 352







P






Palatini identity, 258






Paracompact, 166






Parallel transport, 207–11






principal bundle, 338






Parallelisable, 220






Partition of unity, 166






Path, 90






constant, 90






inverse, 90






product, 90






Path integral, 1–10






Pauli–Villars regularisation, 457






Period, 194






Pfaffian, 394






Poincaré–Alexander theorem, 57






Poincaré duality, 198






Poincaré metric, 226, 486






Poincaré transformation, 262






Poincaré's lemma, 196–7, 362, 397






Polarisation, 375






Polyakov action, 32, 261–3






Polyhedron, 56, 58






regular, 60






Pontrjagin class, 390–3






Presentation, 104






Principal bundle, 318–20, 327, 329






Product bundle, 317






Product manifold, 139






Projection, 303, 305






Projective plane, 25, 40, 182






fundamental group, 111






homology group, 80






Projective space






complex, 271, 289, 405






real, 137–8






Pseudo-Riemannian manifold, 206






Pseudo-Riemannian metric, 204






Pseudoparticle, 360






PSL(2, Z) *, 267–70






Pullback, 45, 328






de Rham cohomology group, 201






linear function, 45






one-form, 148






Pullback bundle, 310–12






Pure gauge, 345







Q






Quadratic differential, 484, 488






Quantum field theory, 1–10






Quaternion, 1, 220–1






Quotient group, 42






Quotient space, 38







R






Range, 35






Rank, 64–5






Real vector, 274






Relation (set theory), 38






Relation (group theory), 103






Representative, 38






Retract, 97






Retraction, 97






Ricci-flat, 291






Ricci form, 286






Ricci rotation coefficient, 247






Ricci tensor, 27, 221






Riemann curvature tensor, 27, 215–18






Hermitian manifold, 285–6






Riemann–Roch theorem, 466–8, 484






Riemann sphere, 266






Riemann surface, 289, 405






Riemann tensor, 215


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