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The 2019 'Australian-German Workshop on Differential Geometry in the Large' represented an extraordinary cross section of topics across differential geometry, geometric analysis and differential topology. The two-week programme featured talks from prominent keynote speakers from across the globe, treating geometric evolution equations, structures on manifolds, non-negative curvature and Alexandrov geometry, and topics in differential topology. A joy to the expert and novice alike, this proceedings volume touches on topics as diverse as Ricci and mean curvature flow, geometric invariant theory, Alexandrov spaces, almost formality, prescribed Ricci curvature, and Kahler and Sasaki geometry.
Intersection theory has played a prominent role in the study of closed symplectic 4-manifolds since Gromov's famous 1985 paper on pseudoholomorphic curves, leading to myriad beautiful rigidity results that are either inaccessible or not true in higher dimensions. Siefring's recent extension of the theory to punctured holomorphic curves allowed similarly important results for contact 3-manifolds and their symplectic fillings. Based on a series of lectures for graduate students in topology, this book begins with an overview of the closed case, and then proceeds to explain the essentials of Siefring's intersection theory and how to use it, and gives some sample applications in low-dimensional symplectic and contact topology. The appendices provide valuable information for researchers, including a concise reference guide on Siefring's theory and a self-contained proof of a weak version of the Micallef-White theorem.
This volume originated in talks given in Cortona at the conference "Geometric aspects of harmonic analysis" held in honor of the 70th birthday of Fulvio Ricci. It presents timely syntheses of several major fields of mathematics as well as original research articles contributed by some of the finest mathematicians working in these areas. The subjects dealt with are topics of current interest in closely interrelated areas of Fourier analysis, singular integral operators, oscillatory integral operators, partial differential equations, multilinear harmonic analysis, and several complex variables. The work is addressed to researchers in the field.
The aim of this book is to study harmonic maps, minimal and parallel mean curvature immersions in the presence of symmetry. In several instances, the latter permits reduction of the original elliptic variational problem to the qualitative study of certain ordinary differential equations: the authors' primary objective is to provide representative examples to illustrate these reduction methods and their associated analysis with geometric and topological applications. The material covered by the book displays a solid interplay involving geometry, analysis and topology: in particular, it includes a basic presentation of 1-cohomogeneous equivariant differential geometry and of the theory of harmonic maps between spheres.
This book offers an up-to-date overview of the recently proposed theory of quantum isometry groups. Written by the founders, it is the first book to present the research on the "quantum isometry group", highlighting the interaction of noncommutative geometry and quantum groups, which is a noncommutative generalization of the notion of group of isometry of a classical Riemannian manifold. The motivation for this generalization is the importance of isometry groups in both mathematics and physics. The framework consists of Alain Connes' "noncommutative geometry" and the operator-algebraic theory of "quantum groups". The authors prove the existence of quantum isometry group for noncommutative manifolds given by spectral triples under mild conditions and discuss a number of methods for computing them. One of the most striking and profound findings is the non-existence of non-classical quantum isometry groups for arbitrary classical connected compact manifolds and, by using this, the authors explicitly describe quantum isometry groups of most of the noncommutative manifolds studied in the literature. Some physical motivations and possible applications are also discussed.
In Hypo-Analytic Structures Franois Treves provides a systematic approach to the study of the differential structures on manifolds defined by systems of complex vector fields. Serving as his main examples are the elliptic complexes, among which the De Rham and Dolbeault are the best known, and the tangential Cauchy-Riemann operators. Basic geometric entities attached to those structures are isolated, such as maximally real submanifolds and orbits of the system. Treves discusses the existence, uniqueness, and approximation of local solutions to homogeneous and inhomogeneous equations and delimits their supports. The contents of this book consist of many results accumulated in the last decade by the author and his collaborators, but also include classical results, such as the Newlander-Nirenberg theorem. The reader will find an elementary description of the FBI transform, as well as examples of its use. Treves extends the main approximation and uniqueness results to first-order nonlinear equations by means of the Hamiltonian lift. Originally published in 1993. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
The theory of D-modules deals with the algebraic aspects of differential equations. These are particularly interesting on homogeneous manifolds, since the infinitesimal action of a Lie algebra consists of differential operators. Hence, it is possible to attach geometric invariants, like the support and the characteristic variety, to representations of Lie groups. By considering D-modules on flag varieties, one obtains a simple classification of all irreducible admissible representations of reductive Lie groups. On the other hand, it is natural to study the representations realized by functions on pseudo-Riemannian symmetric spaces, i.e., spherical representations. The problem is then to describe the spherical representations among all irreducible ones, and to compute their multiplicities. This is the goal of this work, achieved fairly completely at least for the discrete series representations of reductive symmetric spaces. The book provides a general introduction to the theory of D-modules on flag varieties, and it describes spherical D-modules in terms of a cohomological formula. Using microlocalization of representations, the author derives a criterion for irreducibility. The relation between multiplicities and singularities is also discussed at length. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Mathematical No/ex, 27 Originally published in 1981. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Book 3 in the Princeton Mathematical Series. Originally published in 1950. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Der vorliegende Klassiker bietet Studierenden und Forschenden in den Gebieten der Theoretischen und Mathematischen Physik eine ideale Einfuhrung in die Differentialgeometrie und Topologie. Beides sind wichtige Werkzeuge in den Gebieten der Astrophysik, der Teilchen- und Festkoerperphysik. Das Buch fuhrt durch: - Pfadintegralmethode und Eichtheorie - Mathematische Grundlagen von Abbildungen, Vektorraumen und Topologie - Fortgeschrittene Konzepte der Geometrie und Topologie und deren Anwendungen im Bereich der Flussigkristalle, bei suprafluidem Helium, in der ART und der bosonischen Stringtheorie - Eine Zusammenfuhrung von Geometrie und Topologie: Faserbundel, charakteristische Klassen und Indextheoreme - Anwendungen von Geometrie und Topologie in der modernen Physik: Eichfeldtheorien und der Analyse der Polakov'schen bosonischen Stringtheorie aus einer geometrischen Perspektive
This book explains and helps readers to develop geometric intuition as it relates to differential forms. It includes over 250 figures to aid understanding and enable readers to visualize the concepts being discussed. The author gradually builds up to the basic ideas and concepts so that definitions, when made, do not appear out of nowhere, and both the importance and role that theorems play is evident as or before they are presented. With a clear writing style and easy-to- understand motivations for each topic, this book is primarily aimed at second- or third-year undergraduate math and physics students with a basic knowledge of vector calculus and linear algebra.
Bernhard Riemanns Werk hat bis heute wesentlichen Einfluss auf die Entwicklung der Mathematik genommen. Seine Ideen sind uberraschend modern und pragen die heutige mathematische Forschung. Die Gesammelten Abhandlungen (1892) samt Supplement von 1902 waren seit langer Zeit vergriffen. R. Narasimhan hat die muhevolle Edition dieser Neuausgabe ubernommen. Es koennen nur einige Hoehepunkte genannt werden: - H. Weils Kommentare uber Riemanns Habilitationsschrift - C.L. Siegel uber Riemanns Nachlass zur analytischen Zahlentheorie - W. Wirtingers beruhmter Vortrag beim internationalen Mathematikerkongress Heidelberg 1904 uber Riemanns Vorlesungen uber die hypergeometrische Reihe. Neben diesen historischen Wurdigungen von Riemanns Werk gibt es aktuelle Beitrage, insbesondere zur Mechanik und uber "shock waves" von S. Chandrasekhar, N. Lebovitz und P. Lax. Raghavan Narasimhan gibt in einer ausfuhrlichen Einleitung eine Wurdigung, insbesondere des funktionentheoretischen Werks von Bernhard Riemann. Ferner sind Fotos und zahlreiche Nachtrage zum Lebenslauf aufgenommen worden. Eine Bibliographie mit mehr als 800 Literaturstellen erarbeitet von E. Neuenschwander und W. Purkert rundet diese Werkausgabe ab.
This text provides a comprehensive introduction to Berezin-Toeplitz operators on compact Kahler manifolds. The heart of the book is devoted to a proof of the main properties of these operators which have been playing a significant role in various areas of mathematics such as complex geometry, topological quantum field theory, integrable systems, and the study of links between symplectic topology and quantum mechanics. The book is carefully designed to supply graduate students with a unique accessibility to the subject. The first part contains a review of relevant material from complex geometry. Examples are presented with explicit detail and computation; prerequisites have been kept to a minimum. Readers are encouraged to enhance their understanding of the material by working through the many straightforward exercises.
Holomorphic vector bundles have become objects of interest not only to algebraic and differential geometers and complex analysts but also to low dimensional topologists and mathematical physicists working on gauge theory. This book, which grew out of the author's lectures and seminars in Berkeley and Japan, is written for researchers and graduate students in these various fields of mathematics. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
In the series of volumes which together will constitute the
"Handbook of Differential Geometry" a rather complete survey of the
field of differential geometry is given. The different chapters
will both deal with the basic material of differential geometry and
with research results (old and recent). All chapters are written by
experts in the area and contain a large bibliography.
In dem Buch wird die Kurven- und Flachentheorie im 3-dimensionalen
euklidischen Raum behandelt und ein Maple-Programmpaket auf einer
CD zum konkreten Arbeiten geliefert.
Dieses Lehrbuch bietet eine Einfuhrung in die Differentialgeometrie auf Faserbundeln. Nach einem Kapitel uber Lie-Gruppen und homogene Raume werden lokal-triviale Faserungen, insbesondere die Hauptfaserbundel und zu ihnen assoziierte Vektorbundel, besprochen. Es folgen die grundlegenden Begriffe der Differentialrechnung auf Faserbundeln: Zusammenhang, Krummung, Parallelverschiebung und kovariante Ableitung. Anschliessend werden die Holonomiegruppen vorgestellt, die zentrale Bedeutung in der Differentialgeometrie haben. Als Anwendungen werden charakteristische Klassen und die Yang-Mills-Gleichung behandelt. Zahlreiche Aufgaben mit Loesungshinweisen helfen, das Gelernte zu vertiefen. Das Buch richtet sich vor allem an Studenten der Mathematik und Physik im Masterstudium. Es stellt mathematische Grundlagen bereit, die in Vorlesungen zur Eichfeldtheorie in der theoretischen und mathematischen Physik Anwendung finden.
Das Buch bietet eine moderne Darstellung der Differential- und Integralrechnung fur Funktionen in einer und mehreren reellen Veranderlichen sowie in einer komplexen Variablen. Die elementaren Funktionen werden uber komplexe Potenzreihen definiert und die Logarithmusfunktion auf ihrer Riemannschen Flache betrachtet. Nachdem die eindimensionale Integration mittels reeller und komplexer Stammfunktionen durchgefuhrt ist, wird uber das uneigentliche n-dimensionale Riemannsche Integral die Integration auf Mannigfaltigkeiten mit Hilfe von Differentialformen vorgestellt. Mit dem Lebesgueschen Integral und dessen Masstheorie werden die Banachraume p-fach integrierbarer Funktionen eingefuhrt. Es werden fur gewoehnliche Differentialgleichungen systematisch Existenz-, Eindeutigkeits- und Stabilitatsfragen behandelt. In einem Kapitel zur Variationsrechnung wird direkt uber die Untersuchung von Geodatischen der Riemannsche Raum und sein Krummungsbegriff vorgestellt.
Das vorliegende Lehrbuch bietet eine moderne Einfuhrung in die Differenzialgeometrie - etwa im Umfang einer einsemestrigen Vorlesung. Zunachst behandelt es die Geometrie von Flachen im Raum. Viele Beispiele schulen Leser in geometrischer Anschauung, deren wichtigste Klasse die Minimalflachen bilden. Zu ihrem Studium entwickeln die Autoren analytische Methoden und loesen in diesem Zusammenhang das Plateausche Problem. Es besteht darin, eine Minimalflache mit vorgegebener Berandung zu finden. Als Beispiel einer globalen Aussage der Differenzialgeometrie beweisen sie den Bernsteinschen Satz. Weitere Kapitel behandeln die innere Geometrie von Flachen einschliesslich des Satzes von Gauss-Bonnet, und stellen die hyperbolische Geometrie ausfuhrlich dar. Die Autoren verknupfen geometrische Konstruktionen und analytische Methoden und folgen damit einem zentralen Trend der modernen mathematischen Forschung. Verschiedene geistesgeschichtliche Bemerkungen runden den Text ab. Die Neuauflage wurde uberarbeitet und aktualisiert. Hinweise und Errata auf Webseite des Autors: https://myweb.rz.uni-augsburg.de/~eschenbu/
Differential geometry arguably offers the smoothest transition from the standard university mathematics sequence of the first four semesters in calculus, linear algebra, and differential equations to the higher levels of abstraction and proof encountered at the upper division by mathematics majors. Today it is possible to describe differential geometry as "the study of structures on the tangent space," and this text develops this point of view. This book, unlike other introductory texts in differential geometry, develops the architecture necessary to introduce symplectic and contact geometry alongside its Riemannian cousin. The main goal of this book is to bring the undergraduate student who already has a solid foundation in the standard mathematics curriculum into contact with the beauty of higher mathematics. In particular, the presentation here emphasizes the consequences of a definition and the careful use of examples and constructions in order to explore those consequences.
Wie bewegt sich ein Massenpunkt in einem Gebiet, an dessen Rand er elastisch zuruckprallt? Welchen Weg nimmt ein Lichtstrahl in einem Gebiet mit ideal reflektierenden Randern? Anhand dieser und ahnlicher Fragen stellt das vorliegende Buch Zusammenhange zwischen Billard und Differentialgeometrie, klassischer Mechanik sowie geometrischer Optik her. Dabei beschaftigt sich das Buch unter anderem mit dem Variationsprinzip beim mathematischen Billard, der symplektischen Geometrie von Lichtstrahlen, der Existenz oder Nichtexistenz von Kaustiken, periodischen Billardtrajektorien und dem Mechanismus fur Chaos bei der Billarddynamik. Erganzend wartet dieses Buch mit einer beachtlichen Anzahl von Exkursen auf, die sich verwandten Themen widmen, darunter der Vierfarbensatz, die mathematisch-physikalische Beschreibung von Regenbogen, der poincaresche Wiederkehrsatz, Hilberts viertes Problem oder der Schliessungssatz von Poncelet.
Bei der Herausgabe dieses Buches mochte ich an dieser Stelle Herrn L. Berwald in Prag, Herrn D. J. Struik in Delft und Herrn R. Weitzenbock in Blaricum, die mich. durch das Mitlesen der Korrek turen sowie durch viele wichtige Bemerkungen aufs wirksamste unter stutzt haben, meinen verbindlichsten Dank aussprechen. Einen freundschaftlichen Gruss dem mathematischen Kreise in Hamburg, wo es mir vergonnt war, im Sommersemester dieses Jahres uber die mehrdimensionale Affingeometrie zu lesen. Manche anregende Bemerkung zum vierten Abschnitt brachte mir diese schone Zeit, die mir immer in freudiger Erinnerung bleiben wird. Der Verlagsbuchhandlung Julius Springer meinen besonderen Dank fur die sorgfaltige Behandlung der Korrekturen, "die mir die sauere Arbeit des Korrigierens fast zu einer Freude machte. Delft, im Dezember 1923. J. A. Schouten. Inhaltsverzeichnis. Seite Einleitung . . . 1 1. Der algebraische Teil des Kalkuls. 1. Die allgemeine Mannigfaltigkeit X" . . 8 2. Der Begriff der ubertragung . . . . . 9 3. Die euklidisch affine Mannigfaltigkeit E" . 9 4. Kontravariante und kovariante Vektoren. 12 5. Kontravariante und kovariante Bivektoren, Trivektoren usw. 17 6. Geometrische Darstellung kontravarianter und kovarianter p-Vektoren bei Einschrankung der Gruppe 20 7. Allgemeine Grossen . . . . ." . . . . 23 8. Die uberschiebungen . . . . . . . . . 28 9. Geometrische Darstellung der Tensoren 32 10. Grossen zweiten Grades und lineare Transformationen 33 11. Die Einfuhrung einer Massbestimmung in der E.. . . 36 12. Die Fundamentaltensoren . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 13. Geometrische Darstellung alternierender Grossen bei der orthogonalen und rotationalen. Gruppe. Metrische Eigenschaften . . . . . . . 41 ."
This original monograph aims to explore the dynamics in the particular but very important and significant case of quasi-integrable Hamiltonian systems, or integrable systems slightly perturbed by other forces. With both analytic and numerical methods, the book studies several of these systems including for example the hydrogen atom or the solar system, with the associated Arnold web through modern tools such as the frequency modified fourier transform, wavelets, and the frequency modulation indicator. Meanwhile, it draws heavily on the more standard KAM and Nekhoroshev theorems. "Geography of Order and Chaos in Mechanics" will be a valuable resource for professional researchers and certain advanced undergraduate students in mathematics and physics, but mostly will be an exceptional reference for Ph.D. students with an interest in perturbation theory. "
Students will find all the information covered in the standard textbooks--and more--explained clearly and concisely in this powerful study tool. Unusually detailed, it elucidates all the most difficult-to-grasp concepts that class studies and texts sometimes gloss over. The hundreds of problems with fully explained solutions illuminate important points and teach students sound problem-solving skills. Ideal, also, for independent study. |
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