Lectures On The Geometry Of Manifolds

Author : Liviu I. Nicolaescu
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9789812778628

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Lectures on the Geometry of Manifolds by Liviu I. Nicolaescu Pdf

The goal of this book is to introduce the reader to some of the most frequently used techniques in modern global geometry. Suited to the beginning graduate student willing to specialize in this very challenging field, the necessary prerequisite is a good knowledge of several variables calculus, linear algebra and point-set topology.The book's guiding philosophy is, in the words of Newton, that ?in learning the sciences examples are of more use than precepts?. We support all the new concepts by examples and, whenever possible, we tried to present several facets of the same issue.While we present most of the local aspects of classical differential geometry, the book has a ?global and analytical bias?. We develop many algebraic-topological techniques in the special context of smooth manifolds such as Poincar‚ duality, Thom isomorphism, intersection theory, characteristic classes and the Gauss-;Bonnet theorem.We devoted quite a substantial part of the book to describing the analytic techniques which have played an increasingly important role during the past decades. Thus, the last part of the book discusses elliptic equations, including elliptic Lpand H”lder estimates, Fredholm theory, spectral theory, Hodge theory, and applications of these. The last chapter is an in-depth investigation of a very special, but fundamental class of elliptic operators, namely, the Dirac type operators.The second edition has many new examples and exercises, and an entirely new chapter on classical integral geometry where we describe some mathematical gems which, undeservedly, seem to have disappeared from the contemporary mathematical limelight.

Author : Izu Vaisman
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783034884952

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Lectures on the Geometry of Poisson Manifolds by Izu Vaisman Pdf

This book is addressed to graduate students and researchers in the fields of mathematics and physics who are interested in mathematical and theoretical physics, differential geometry, mechanics, quantization theories and quantum physics, quantum groups etc., and who are familiar with differentiable and symplectic manifolds. The aim of the book is to provide the reader with a monograph that enables him to study systematically basic and advanced material on the recently developed theory of Poisson manifolds, and that also offers ready access to bibliographical references for the continuation of his study. Until now, most of this material was dispersed in research papers published in many journals and languages. The main subjects treated are the Schouten-Nijenhuis bracket; the generalized Frobenius theorem; the basics of Poisson manifolds; Poisson calculus and cohomology; quantization; Poisson morphisms and reduction; realizations of Poisson manifolds by symplectic manifolds and by symplectic groupoids and Poisson-Lie groups. The book unifies terminology and notation. It also reports on some original developments stemming from the author's work, including new results on Poisson cohomology and geometric quantization, cofoliations and biinvariant Poisson structures on Lie groups.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789814474771

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Lectures on the Geometry of Manifolds by Anonim Pdf

Author : Liviu I Nicolaescu
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 701 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-08
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9789811214837

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Lectures On The Geometry Of Manifolds (Third Edition) by Liviu I Nicolaescu Pdf

The goal of this book is to introduce the reader to some of the main techniques, ideas and concepts frequently used in modern geometry. It starts from scratch and it covers basic topics such as differential and integral calculus on manifolds, connections on vector bundles and their curvatures, basic Riemannian geometry, calculus of variations, DeRham cohomology, integral geometry (tube and Crofton formulas), characteristic classes, elliptic equations on manifolds and Dirac operators. The new edition contains a new chapter on spectral geometry presenting recent results which appear here for the first time in printed form.

Author : Ana Cannas da Silva
Publisher : Springer
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2004-10-27
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783540453307

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Lectures on Symplectic Geometry by Ana Cannas da Silva Pdf

The goal of these notes is to provide a fast introduction to symplectic geometry for graduate students with some knowledge of differential geometry, de Rham theory and classical Lie groups. This text addresses symplectomorphisms, local forms, contact manifolds, compatible almost complex structures, Kaehler manifolds, hamiltonian mechanics, moment maps, symplectic reduction and symplectic toric manifolds. It contains guided problems, called homework, designed to complement the exposition or extend the reader's understanding. There are by now excellent references on symplectic geometry, a subset of which is in the bibliography of this book. However, the most efficient introduction to a subject is often a short elementary treatment, and these notes attempt to serve that purpose. This text provides a taste of areas of current research and will prepare the reader to explore recent papers and extensive books on symplectic geometry where the pace is much faster. For this reprint numerous corrections and clarifications have been made, and the layout has been improved.

Author : Spiro Karigiannis,Naichung Conan Leung,Jason D. Lotay
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-26
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781071605776

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Lectures and Surveys on G2-Manifolds and Related Topics by Spiro Karigiannis,Naichung Conan Leung,Jason D. Lotay Pdf

This book, one of the first on G2 manifolds in decades, collects introductory lectures and survey articles largely based on talks given at a workshop held at the Fields Institute in August 2017, as part of the major thematic program on geometric analysis. It provides an accessible introduction to various aspects of the geometry of G2 manifolds, including the construction of examples, as well as the intimate relations with calibrated geometry, Yang-Mills gauge theory, and geometric flows. It also features the inclusion of a survey on the new topological and analytic invariants of G2 manifolds that have been recently discovered. The first half of the book, consisting of several introductory lectures, is aimed at experienced graduate students or early career researchers in geometry and topology who wish to familiarize themselves with this burgeoning field. The second half, consisting of numerous survey articles, is intended to be useful to both beginners and experts in the field.

Author : Riccardo Benedetti,Carlo Petronio
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783642581588

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Lectures on Hyperbolic Geometry by Riccardo Benedetti,Carlo Petronio Pdf

Focussing on the geometry of hyperbolic manifolds, the aim here is to provide an exposition of some fundamental results, while being as self-contained, complete, detailed and unified as possible. Following some classical material on the hyperbolic space and the Teichmüller space, the book centers on the two fundamental results: Mostow's rigidity theorem (including a complete proof, following Gromov and Thurston) and Margulis' lemma. These then form the basis for studying Chabauty and geometric topology; a unified exposition is given of Wang's theorem and the Jorgensen-Thurston theory; and much space is devoted to the 3D case: a complete and elementary proof of the hyperbolic surgery theorem, based on the representation of three manifolds as glued ideal tetrahedra.

Author : Loring W. Tu
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-05
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781441974006

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An Introduction to Manifolds by Loring W. Tu Pdf

Manifolds, the higher-dimensional analogs of smooth curves and surfaces, are fundamental objects in modern mathematics. Combining aspects of algebra, topology, and analysis, manifolds have also been applied to classical mechanics, general relativity, and quantum field theory. In this streamlined introduction to the subject, the theory of manifolds is presented with the aim of helping the reader achieve a rapid mastery of the essential topics. By the end of the book the reader should be able to compute, at least for simple spaces, one of the most basic topological invariants of a manifold, its de Rham cohomology. Along the way, the reader acquires the knowledge and skills necessary for further study of geometry and topology. The requisite point-set topology is included in an appendix of twenty pages; other appendices review facts from real analysis and linear algebra. Hints and solutions are provided to many of the exercises and problems. This work may be used as the text for a one-semester graduate or advanced undergraduate course, as well as by students engaged in self-study. Requiring only minimal undergraduate prerequisites, 'Introduction to Manifolds' is also an excellent foundation for Springer's GTM 82, 'Differential Forms in Algebraic Topology'.

Author : S S Chern,W H Chen,K S Lam
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1999-11-30
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9789813102989

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Lectures on Differential Geometry by S S Chern,W H Chen,K S Lam Pdf

This book is a translation of an authoritative introductory text based on a lecture series delivered by the renowned differential geometer, Professor S S Chern in Beijing University in 1980. The original Chinese text, authored by Professor Chern and Professor Wei-Huan Chen, was a unique contribution to the mathematics literature, combining simplicity and economy of approach with depth of contents. The present translation is aimed at a wide audience, including (but not limited to) advanced undergraduate and graduate students in mathematics, as well as physicists interested in the diverse applications of differential geometry to physics. In addition to a thorough treatment of the fundamentals of manifold theory, exterior algebra, the exterior calculus, connections on fiber bundles, Riemannian geometry, Lie groups and moving frames, and complex manifolds (with a succinct introduction to the theory of Chern classes), and an appendix on the relationship between differential geometry and theoretical physics, this book includes a new chapter on Finsler geometry and a new appendix on the history and recent developments of differential geometry, the latter prepared specially for this edition by Professor Chern to bring the text into perspectives.

Author : Werner Ballmann
Publisher : European Mathematical Society
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 3037190256

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Lectures on Kähler Manifolds by Werner Ballmann Pdf

These notes are based on lectures the author gave at the University of Bonn and the Erwin Schrodinger Institute in Vienna. The aim is to give a thorough introduction to the theory of Kahler manifolds with special emphasis on the differential geometric side of Kahler geometry. The exposition starts with a short discussion of complex manifolds and holomorphic vector bundles and a detailed account of the basic differential geometric properties of Kahler manifolds. The more advanced topics are the cohomology of Kahler manifolds, Calabi conjecture, Gromov's Kahler hyperbolic spaces, and the Kodaira embedding theorem. Some familiarity with global analysis and partial differential equations is assumed, in particular in the part on the Calabi conjecture. There are appendices on Chern-Weil theory, symmetric spaces, and $L^2$-cohomology.

Author : John Roe
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Algebraic topology
ISBN : 9780821833322

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Lectures on Coarse Geometry by John Roe Pdf

Coarse geometry is the study of spaces (particularly metric spaces) from a 'large scale' point of view, so that two spaces that look the same from a great distance are actually equivalent. This book provides a general perspective on coarse structures. It discusses results on asymptotic dimension and uniform embeddings into Hilbert space.

Author : Shiing-Shen Chern,Weihuan Chen,Kai Shue Lam
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9810241828

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Lectures on Differential Geometry by Shiing-Shen Chern,Weihuan Chen,Kai Shue Lam Pdf

This book is a translation of an authoritative introductory text based on a lecture series delivered by the renowned differential geometer, Professor S S Chern in Beijing University in 1980. The original Chinese text, authored by Professor Chern and Professor Wei-Huan Chen, was a unique contribution to the mathematics literature, combining simplicity and economy of approach with depth of contents. The present translation is aimed at a wide audience, including (but not limited to) advanced undergraduate and graduate students in mathematics, as well as physicists interested in the diverse applications of differential geometry to physics. In addition to a thorough treatment of the fundamentals of manifold theory, exterior algebra, the exterior calculus, connections on fiber bundles, Riemannian geometry, Lie groups and moving frames, and complex manifolds (with a succinct introduction to the theory of Chern classes), and an appendix on the relationship between differential geometry and theoretical physics, this book includes a new chapter on Finsler geometry and a new appendix on the history and recent developments of differential geometry, the latter prepared specially for this edition by Professor Chern to bring the text into perspectives.

Author : John M. Lee
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2006-04-06
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780387227276

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Introduction to Topological Manifolds by John M. Lee Pdf

Manifolds play an important role in topology, geometry, complex analysis, algebra, and classical mechanics. Learning manifolds differs from most other introductory mathematics in that the subject matter is often completely unfamiliar. This introduction guides readers by explaining the roles manifolds play in diverse branches of mathematics and physics. The book begins with the basics of general topology and gently moves to manifolds, the fundamental group, and covering spaces.

Author : Nikolai Saveliev
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-25
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783110806359

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Lectures on the Topology of 3-Manifolds by Nikolai Saveliev Pdf

Author : Patrick Eberlein
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0226181987

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Geometry of Nonpositively Curved Manifolds by Patrick Eberlein Pdf

Starting from the foundations, the author presents an almost entirely self-contained treatment of differentiable spaces of nonpositive curvature, focusing on the symmetric spaces in which every geodesic lies in a flat Euclidean space of dimension at least two. The book builds to a discussion of the Mostow Rigidity Theorem and its generalizations, and concludes by exploring the relationship in nonpositively curved spaces between geometric and algebraic properties of the fundamental group. This introduction to the geometry of symmetric spaces of non-compact type will serve as an excellent guide for graduate students new to the material, and will also be a useful reference text for mathematicians already familiar with the subject.