Differential Geometry - Cartan's Generalization of Klein's Erlangen Program (Hardcover, 1st ed. 1997. Corr. 2nd printing 2000)

Cartan geometries were the first examples of connections on a principal bundle. They seem to be almost unknown these days, in spite of the great beauty and conceptual power they confer on geometry. The aim of the present book is to fill the gap in the literature on differential geometry by the missing notion of Cartan connections. Although the author had in mind a book accessible to graduate students, potential readers would also include working differential geometers who would like to know more about what Cartan did, which was to give a notion of "espaces généralisés" (= Cartan geometries) generalizing homogeneous spaces (= Klein geometries) in the same way that Riemannian geometry generalizes Euclidean geometry. In addition, physicists will be interested to see the fully satisfying way in which their gauge theory can be truly regarded as geometry.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 166
Release date:	November 2000
First published:	1997
Authors:	R. W. Sharpe
Preface by:	S.S. Chern
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	426
Edition:	1st ed. 1997. Corr. 2nd printing 2000
ISBN-13:	978-0-387-94732-7
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Geometry > Differential & Riemannian geometry
LSN:	0-387-94732-9
Barcode:	9780387947327

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