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For questions about the discipline that uses differential calculus and linear algebra to study geometrical problems.
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How did the 'Poincaré patches' get their name?
The explanation I learned when I first learned the term Poincare patch on AdS$_{d+1}$ in the context of AdS/CFT is the following. The metric for such a patch is
\begin{equation*}
ds^2 = \frac 1{z^2} …
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When and how was the geometric understanding of gauge theories developed?
I'll focus on the geometry of Yang-Mills theories specifically, but as Conifold's answer points out, gauge theories were studied geometrically long before the work of Yang and Mills.
The foreward to …