The Standard Model - the Commutative Case: Spinors, Dirac Operator and de Rham Algebra

Abstract

The present paper is a short survey on the mathematical basics of Classical Field Theory including the Serre-Swan' theorem, Clifford algebra bundles and spinor bundles over smooth Riemannian manifolds, Spin^C-structures, Dirac operators, exterior algebra bundles and Connes' differential algebras in the commutative case, among other elements. We avoid the introduction of principal bundles and put the emphasis on a module-based approach using Serre-Swan's theorem, Hermitian structures and module frames. A new proof (due to Harald Upmeier) of the differential algebra isomorphism between the set of smooth sections of the exterior algebra bundle and Connes' differential algebra is presented.

19 pages, LaTeX2e