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REVIEWS OF TOPICAL PROBLEMS

A short guide to modern geometry for physicists

M. A. Olshanetsky

Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow

Abstract: Some concepts of differential geometry and topology which have applications in the theory of classical gauge fields are explained by means of simple examples. A guide to the mathematical literature is given.

UDC: 539.12.01

PACS: 02.40.Hw, 02.40.Pc, 11.15.-q

DOI: 10.3367/UFNr.0136.198203b.0421

 English version: Physics–Uspekhi, 1982, 25:3, 123–129