Download or read book Riemannian Geometry and Holonomy Groups written by Simon Salamon and published by Longman Scientific and Technical. This book was released on 1989 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Riemannian Holonomy Groups and Calibrated Geometry written by Dominic D. Joyce and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Riemannian Holonomy Groups and Calibrated Geometry covers an exciting and active area of research at the crossroads of several different fields in mathematics and physics. Drawing on the author's previous work the text has been written to explain the advanced mathematics involved simply and clearly to graduate students in both disciplines.
Download or read book Holonomy Groups in Riemannian Geometry written by Andrew Clarke and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Submanifolds and Holonomy written by Jurgen Berndt and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-02-22 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Submanifolds and Holonomy, Second Edition explores recent progress in the submanifold geometry of space forms, including new methods based on the holonomy of the normal connection. This second edition reflects many developments that have occurred since the publication of its popular predecessor.New to the Second EditionNew chapter on normal holonom
Download or read book Recent Developments in Pseudo Riemannian Geometry written by Dmitriĭ Vladimirovich Alekseevskiĭ and published by European Mathematical Society. This book was released on 2008 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an introduction to and survey of recent developments in pseudo-Riemannian geometry, including applications in mathematical physics, by leading experts in the field. Topics covered are: Classification of pseudo-Riemannian symmetric spaces Holonomy groups of Lorentzian and pseudo-Riemannian manifolds Hypersymplectic manifolds Anti-self-dual conformal structures in neutral signature and integrable systems Neutral Kahler surfaces and geometric optics Geometry and dynamics of the Einstein universe Essential conformal structures and conformal transformations in pseudo-Riemannian geometry The causal hierarchy of spacetimes Geodesics in pseudo-Riemannian manifolds Lorentzian symmetric spaces in supergravity Generalized geometries in supergravity Einstein metrics with Killing leaves The book is addressed to advanced students as well as to researchers in differential geometry, global analysis, general relativity and string theory. It shows essential differences between the geometry on manifolds with positive definite metrics and on those with indefinite metrics, and highlights the interesting new geometric phenomena, which naturally arise in the indefinite metric case. The reader finds a description of the present state of the art in the field as well as open problems, which can stimulate further research.
Download or read book Compact Manifolds with Special Holonomy written by Dominic D. Joyce and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2000 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a combination of a graduate textbook on Reimannian holonomy groups, and a research monograph on compact manifolds with the exceptional holonomy groups G2 and Spin (7). It contains much new research and many new examples.
Download or read book Riemannian Holonomy Groups and Calibrated Geometry written by Dominic D. Joyce and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-02-22 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This graduate level text covers an exciting and active area of research at the crossroads of several different fields in Mathematics and Physics. In Mathematics it involves Differential Geometry, Complex Algebraic Geometry, Symplectic Geometry, and in Physics String Theory and Mirror Symmetry. Drawing extensively on the author's previous work, the text explains the advanced mathematics involved simply and clearly to both mathematicians and physicists. Starting with the basic geometry of connections, curvature, complex and Kähler structures suitable for beginning graduate students, the text covers seminal results such as Yau's proof of the Calabi Conjecture, and takes the reader all the way to the frontiers of current research in calibrated geometry, giving many open problems.
Download or read book Handbook of Pseudo Riemannian Geometry and Supersymmetry written by Vicente Cortés and published by European Mathematical Society. This book was released on 2010 with total page 972 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this handbook is to give an overview of some recent developments in differential geometry related to supersymmetric field theories. The main themes covered are: Special geometry and supersymmetry Generalized geometry Geometries with torsion Para-geometries Holonomy theory Symmetric spaces and spaces of constant curvature Conformal geometry Wave equations on Lorentzian manifolds D-branes and K-theory The intended audience consists of advanced students and researchers working in differential geometry, string theory, and related areas. The emphasis is on geometrical structures occurring on target spaces of supersymmetric field theories. Some of these structures can be fully described in the classical framework of pseudo-Riemannian geometry. Others lead to new concepts relating various fields of research, such as special Kahler geometry or generalized geometry.
Download or read book Riemannian Geometry written by Takashi Sakai and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is an English translation of Sakai's textbook on Riemannian Geometry which was originally written in Japanese and published in 1992. The author's intent behind the original book was to provide to advanced undergraduate and graudate students an introduction to modern Riemannian geometry that could also serve as a reference. The book begins with an explanation of the fundamental notion of Riemannian geometry. Special emphasis is placed on understandability and readability, to guide students who are new to this area. The remaining chapters deal with various topics in Riemannian geometry, with the main focus on comparison methods and their applications.
Download or read book Calabi Yau Manifolds and Related Geometries written by Mark Gross and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an introduction to a very active field of research, on the boundary between mathematics and physics. It is aimed at graduate students and researchers in geometry and string theory. Proofs or sketches are given for many important results. From the reviews: "An excellent introduction to current research in the geometry of Calabi-Yau manifolds, hyper-Kähler manifolds, exceptional holonomy and mirror symmetry....This is an excellent and useful book." --MATHEMATICAL REVIEWS
Download or read book A Panoramic View of Riemannian Geometry written by Marcel Berger and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 835 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces readers to the living topics of Riemannian Geometry and details the main results known to date. The results are stated without detailed proofs but the main ideas involved are described, affording the reader a sweeping panoramic view of almost the entirety of the field. From the reviews "The book has intrinsic value for a student as well as for an experienced geometer. Additionally, it is really a compendium in Riemannian Geometry." --MATHEMATICAL REVIEWS
Download or read book Riemannian Geometry written by Peter Petersen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intended for a one year course, this volume serves as a single source, introducing students to the important techniques and theorems, while also containing enough background on advanced topics to appeal to those students wishing to specialise in Riemannian geometry. Instead of variational techniques, the author uses a unique approach, emphasising distance functions and special co-ordinate systems. He also uses standard calculus with some techniques from differential equations to provide a more elementary route. Many chapters contain material typically found in specialised texts, never before published in a single source. This is one of the few works to combine both the geometric parts of Riemannian geometry and the analytic aspects of the theory, while also presenting the most up-to-date research - including sections on convergence and compactness of families of manifolds. Thus, this book will appeal to readers with a knowledge of standard manifold theory, including such topics as tensors and Stokes theorem. Various exercises are scattered throughout the text, helping motivate readers to deepen their understanding of the subject.
Download or read book Topics in Riemannian Geometry written by James Eells and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Introduction to Riemannian Geometry written by Leonor Godinho and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-26 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike many other texts on differential geometry, this textbook also offers interesting applications to geometric mechanics and general relativity. The first part is a concise and self-contained introduction to the basics of manifolds, differential forms, metrics and curvature. The second part studies applications to mechanics and relativity including the proofs of the Hawking and Penrose singularity theorems. It can be independently used for one-semester courses in either of these subjects. The main ideas are illustrated and further developed by numerous examples and over 300 exercises. Detailed solutions are provided for many of these exercises, making An Introduction to Riemannian Geometry ideal for self-study.
Download or read book Conformal Differential Geometry written by Helga Baum and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-01-28 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conformal invariants (conformally invariant tensors, conformally covariant differential operators, conformal holonomy groups etc.) are of central significance in differential geometry and physics. Well-known examples of such operators are the Yamabe-, the Paneitz-, the Dirac- and the twistor operator. The aim of the seminar was to present the basic ideas and some of the recent developments around Q-curvature and conformal holonomy. The part on Q-curvature discusses its origin, its relevance in geometry, spectral theory and physics. Here the influence of ideas which have their origin in the AdS/CFT-correspondence becomes visible. The part on conformal holonomy describes recent classification results, its relation to Einstein metrics and to conformal Killing spinors, and related special geometries.
Download or read book Holonomy and Parallel Spinors in Lorentzian Geometry written by Thomas Leistner and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The group of parallel displacements, the so-called holonomy group, is an important tool in order tostudy geometric structures on a smooth manifold. It describes parallel objects in tensor bundles as well as in other geometric vector bundles, such as the spinor bundle. The question: Which groups may occur as holonomy group of a semi-Riemannian manifold and which of these admit parallel spinors? is a classical one in differential geometry. It is essentially solved for Riemannian manifolds, because here the holonomy group acts completely reducible. This dissertation is an aproach to answer this question for Lorentzian manifolds.Lorentzian manifoldsare relevant for modern physics and their holonomy representation is not necessarily completely reducible. There are manifolds with indecomposable, but non-irreducible holonomy representation. These are interesting for the existence of parallel spinors. This is explained in the mainly introductory first chapter. Here also a decomposition theorem for the existence of parallel spinors is proven. Lorentzian manifolds with indecomposable, but non-irreducible holonomy representation are described in detail in the second chapter. Their holonomy group is contained in the parabolic group and its essential part is the screen holonomy. A construction method is given for manifolds, for which the screen holonomy is a Riemannian holonomy group. In the third chapter the existence of parallel spinors and its consequences for the holonomy group and the screen holonomy are studied. In the last chapter a partial classification of indecomposable, non-irreducible Lorentzian holonomy groups is given by proving that in most of the cases the screen holonomy has to be a Riemannian holonomy. The consequences for the existence of parallel spinors are drawn. This classification result uses methods of representation theory of real, semisimple Lie algebras. The main facts of this theory are briefly explained in the appendix.
Download or read book Global Theory of Connections and Holonomy Groups written by André Lichnerowicz and published by Noordhoff International Publishing. This book was released on 1976 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
