Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Lie groups, fibre bundles and Cartan calculus
- 2 Connections and characteristic classes
- 3 A first look at cohomology of groups and related topics
- 4 An introduction to abstract group extension theory
- 5 Cohomology groups of a group G and extensions by an abelian kernel
- 6 Cohomology of Lie algebras
- 7 Group extensions by non-abelian kernels
- 8 Cohomology and Wess-Zumino terms: an introduction
- 9 Infinite-dimensional Lie groups and algebras
- 10 Gauge anomalies
- List of symbols
- References
- Index
4 - An introduction to abstract group extension theory
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 February 2010
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Lie groups, fibre bundles and Cartan calculus
- 2 Connections and characteristic classes
- 3 A first look at cohomology of groups and related topics
- 4 An introduction to abstract group extension theory
- 5 Cohomology groups of a group G and extensions by an abelian kernel
- 6 Cohomology of Lie algebras
- 7 Group extensions by non-abelian kernels
- 8 Cohomology and Wess-Zumino terms: an introduction
- 9 Infinite-dimensional Lie groups and algebras
- 10 Gauge anomalies
- List of symbols
- References
- Index
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1995