Differential Forms or Tensors for Theoretical Physics Today

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it was believed that the flat Euclidean geometry is the geometry of physical space (regarded by Immanuel Kant as being necessarily true as an « a priori synthetic » proposition) until Einstein’s great discovery that space-time, though locally flat, is in fact curve

From "Non Local Aspects of Quantum Phases" by J. ANANDAN, also noticing:

the electromagnetic field strength of a magnetic monopole belongs to a Chern class that is an element of the second de Rham cohomology group.

More generally I'd say that a differential structure with a tangent bundle is almost always assumed in physics (both classical and quantum, and e.g. including here even Penrose spinor bundles) and I can hardly imagine a generalization to other bundles than those ones.
 

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