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Riemannian manifold, 206






Riemannian metric, 204






Riemannian structure, 351






Right-translation, 170






Robertson–Walker metric, 229







S






Scalar curvature, 28, 221






Schwarzschild metric, 229, 249






Section, 305, 307






Self-dual solution, 18, 360






Shanker's monopole, 120, 127–8






Signature complex, 419






Simplex, 56, 66–7






oriented, 69–70






singular, 188






standard, 187






Simplicial complex, 67–9






Skelton, 106






SL(2, C) *, 178–80






Smash product, 451






Smooth, 140






Spacelike, 205, 236






Special linear group, 168, 169






Special orthogonal group, 168






Special unitary group, 169






Spectral flow, 430, 459






Sphere, 136






Spin bundle, 326, 402, 407, 420






Spin complex, 420–3






twisted, 423, 441






Spin group, 118, 420






Spin structure, 402






second Stiefel–Whitney class, 405






Spinor,






Dirac, 260, 327






in curved spacetime, 260–1






Weyl, 237






Splitting principle, 383






Spontaneous magnetisation, 20






Spontaneous symmetry breaking, 13, 19






Stabiliser, 181






Stiefel manifold, 185






Stiefel–Whitney class, 403–5, 464






Stokes' theorem, 189–91






Strings, 30–3






Structure constant, 12, 176






Structure group, 304–5






Submanifold, 149






Superconductor, 21, 121






Superfluid,






4He, 21






3He, 25–6, 125–8






Surjective, 36






Symbol, of differential operator, 407






Symmetric connection, 221






Symmetric group, 157






Symmetrised trace, 375, 450






Symmetriser, 158







T






Tangent bundle, 303






Tangent space, 145






Tangent vector, 143–5






Teichmüller deformation, 473






Teichmüller space, 470






Tensor, 47–8






differentiable manifold, 146






vector space, 47–8






Tensor field, 147






Tensor product, 47






vector space, 47






Tensor product bundle, 318






Texture, 125–8






Timelike, 205, 236






Todd class, 389, 416






Topological excitation, 21






Topological group, 117






Topological index, 413






Topological invariant, 54–5






Topological space, 48–53






Topology, 48






discrete, 48






metric, 49






relative, 49






trivial, 48






usual, 49






Torsion subgroup, 85






Torsion tensor, 214–18






Hermitian manifold, 285






Torsion two–form, 245






Torus, 40






complex manifold, 266–71






fundamental group, 101–2, 108–10






homology group, 82






Total space, 305






Transgression, 378


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