Foliations and Geometric Structures (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2006)

The theory of foliations of manifolds was created in the forties of the last century by Ch. Ehresmann and G. Reeb [ER44]. Since then, the subject has enjoyed a rapid development and thousands of papers investigating foliations have appeared. A list of papers and preprints on foliations up to 1995 can be found in Tondeur [Ton97]. Due to the great interest of topologists and geometers in this rapidly ev- ving theory, many books on foliations have also been published one after the other. We mention, for example, the books written by: I. Tamura [Tam76], G. Hector and U. Hirsch [HH83], B. Reinhart [Rei83], C. Camacho and A.L. Neto [CN85], H. Kitahara [Kit86], P. Molino [Mol88], Ph. Tondeur [Ton88], [Ton97], V. Rovenskii [Rov98], A. Candel and L. Conlon [CC03]. Also, the survey written by H.B. Lawson, Jr. [Law74] had a great impact on the de- lopment of the theory of foliations. So it is natural to ask: why write yet another book on foliations? The answerisverysimple.Ourareasofinterestandinvestigationaredi?erent.The main theme of this book is to investigate the interrelations between foliations of a manifold on one hand, and the many geometric structures that the ma- foldmayadmitontheotherhand. Amongthesestructureswemention:a?ne, Riemannian, semi-Riemannian, Finsler, symplectic, and contact structures.

General

Imprint:	Springer
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Mathematics and Its Applications, 580
Release date:	November 2010
First published:	2006
Authors:	Aurel Bejancu • Hani Reda Farran
Dimensions:	240 x 160 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	300
Edition:	Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2006
ISBN-13:	978-90-481-6941-2
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Geometry > Differential & Riemannian geometry Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Topology > Algebraic topology Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Applied mathematics > General
LSN:	90-481-6941-0
Barcode:	9789048169412

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