Download or read book Differential Characters written by Christian Bär and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a systematic introduction to differential characters as introduced by Cheeger and Simons, this text describes important concepts such as fiber integration, higher dimensional holonomy, transgression, and the product structure in a geometric manner. Differential characters form a model of what is nowadays called differential cohomology, which is the mathematical structure behind the higher gauge theories in physics.