Singular Semi-Riemannian Geometry (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1996)

This book is an exposition of "Singular Semi-Riemannian Geometry"- the study of a smooth manifold furnished with a degenerate (singular) metric tensor of arbitrary signature. The main topic of interest is those cases where the metric tensor is assumed to be nondegenerate. In the literature, manifolds with degenerate metric tensors have been studied extrinsically as degenerate submanifolds of semi Riemannian manifolds. One major aspect of this book is first to study the intrinsic structure of a manifold with a degenerate metric tensor and then to study it extrinsically by considering it as a degenerate submanifold of a semi-Riemannian manifold. This book is divided into three parts. Part I deals with singular semi Riemannian manifolds in four chapters. In Chapter I, the linear algebra of indefinite real inner product spaces is reviewed. In general, properties of certain geometric tensor fields are obtained purely from the algebraic point of view without referring to their geometric origin. Chapter II is devoted to a review of covariant derivative operators in real vector bundles. Chapter III is the main part of this book where, intrinsically, the Koszul connection is introduced and its curvature identities are obtained. In Chapter IV, an application of Chapter III is made to degenerate submanifolds of semi-Riemannian manifolds and Gauss, Codazzi and Ricci equations are obtained. Part II deals with singular Kahler manifolds in four chapters parallel to Part I."

General

Imprint:	Springer
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Mathematics and Its Applications, 366
Release date:	December 2010
First published:	1996
Authors:	D.N. Kupeli
Dimensions:	240 x 160 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	181
Edition:	Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1996
ISBN-13:	978-90-481-4689-5
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Geometry > Differential & Riemannian geometry
LSN:	90-481-4689-5
Barcode:	9789048146895

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