Secondary Calculus and Cohomological Physics

Download or read book Secondary Calculus and Cohomological Physics written by Marc Henneaux and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 1998 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of invited lectures (at the Conference on Secondary Calculus and Cohomological Physics, Moscow, 1997) reflects the state-of-the-art in a new branch of mathematics and mathematical physics arising at the intersection of geometry of nonlinear differential equations, quantum field theory, and cohomological algebra. This is the first comprehensive and self-contained book on modern quantum field theory in the context of cohomological methods and the geometry of nonlinear PDEs.