Download or read book Pseudo Riemannian Symmetric Spaces written by Michel Cahen and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 1980 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simply connected Reimannian symmetric spaces were classified by E. Cartan. This paper examines an attempt to obtain an analogous classification when the metric has indefinite signature.
Download or read book Pseudo Riemannian Symmetric Spaces written by Michel Cahen and published by . This book was released on with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 Analysis on Non Riemannian Symmetric Spaces written by Mogens Flensted-Jensen and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 1986 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harmonic analysis on Riemannian semi simple symmetric spaces and on special types of non-Riemannian semi simple symmetric spaces are well-established theories. This book presents a systematic treatment of the basic problems on semi simple symmetric spaces and a discussion of some of the more important recent developments in the field.
Download or read book Pseudo Riemannian Symmetric Spaces written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 Spaces of Constant Curvature written by Joseph A. Wolf and published by American Mathematical Society. This book was released on 2023-06-05 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the sixth edition of the classic Spaces of Constant Curvature, first published in 1967, with the previous (fifth) edition published in 1984. It illustrates the high degree of interplay between group theory and geometry. The reader will benefit from the very concise treatments of riemannian and pseudo-riemannian manifolds and their curvatures, of the representation theory of finite groups, and of indications of recent progress in discrete subgroups of Lie groups. Part I is a brief introduction to differentiable manifolds, covering spaces, and riemannian and pseudo-riemannian geometry. It also contains a certain amount of introductory material on symmetry groups and space forms, indicating the direction of the later chapters. Part II is an updated treatment of euclidean space form. Part III is Wolf's classic solution to the Clifford–Klein Spherical Space Form Problem. It starts with an exposition of the representation theory of finite groups. Part IV introduces riemannian symmetric spaces and extends considerations of spherical space forms to space forms of riemannian symmetric spaces. Finally, Part V examines space form problems on pseudo-riemannian symmetric spaces. At the end of Chapter 12 there is a new appendix describing some of the recent work on discrete subgroups of Lie groups with application to space forms of pseudo-riemannian symmetric spaces. Additional references have been added to this sixth edition as well.
Download or read book Spaces of Constant Curvature written by Joseph Albert Wolf and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 1972 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the sixth edition of the classic Spaces of Constant Curvature, first published in 1967, with the previous (fifth) edition published in 1984. It illustrates the high degree of interplay between group theory and geometry. The reader will benefit from the very concise treatments of Riemannian and pseudo-Riemannian manifolds and their curvatures, of the representation theory of finite groups, and of indications of recent progress in discrete subgroups of Lie groups. Part I is a brief introduction to differentiable manifolds, covering spaces, and Riemannian and pseudo-Riemannian geometry. It also contains a certain amount of introductory material on symmetry groups and space forms, indicating the direction of the later chapters. Part II is an updated treatment of euclidean space form. Part III is Wolf's classic solution to the Clifford-Klein Spherical Space Form Problem. It starts with an exposition of the representation theory of finite groups. Part IV introduces Riemannian symmetric spaces and extends considerations of spherical space forms to space forms of Riemannian symmetric spaces. Finally, Part V examines space form problems on pseudo-Riemannian symmetric spaces. At the end of Chapter 12 there is a new appendix describing some of the recent work on discrete subgroups of Lie groups with application to space forms of pseudo-Riemannian symmetric spaces.
Download or read book The Geometry of Curvature Homogeneous Pseudo Riemannian Manifolds written by Peter B. Gilkey and published by Imperial College Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pseudo-Riemannian geometry is an active research field not only in differential geometry but also in mathematical physics where the higher signature geometries play a role in brane theory. An essential reference tool for research mathematicians and physicists, this book also serves as a useful introduction to students entering this active and rapidly growing field. The author presents a comprehensive treatment of several aspects of pseudo-Riemannian geometry, including the spectral geometry of the curvature tensor, curvature homogeneity, and StanilovOCoTsankovOCoVidev theory."
Download or read book Analysis on Non Riemannian Symmetric Spaces written by Mogens Flensted-Jensen and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 1986-12-31 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harmonic analysis on Riemannian semisimple symmetric spaces and on special types of non-Riemannian semisimple symmetric spaces are well-established theories. This book presents a systematic treatment of the basic problems on semisimple symmetric spaces and a discussion of some of the more important recent developments in the field. The author's primary contribution has been his idea of how to construct the discrete series for such a space. In this book a fundamental role is played by the ideas behind that construction, namely the duality principle, the orbit picture related to it, and the definition of representations by means of distributions on the orbits. Intended as a text at the upper graduate level, the book assumes a basic knowledge of Fourier analysis, differential geometry, and functional analysis. In particular, the reader should have a good knowledge of the general theory of real and complex Lie algebras and Lie groups and of the root and weight theories for semisimple Lie algebras and Lie groups.
Download or read book Strong Rigidity of Locally Symmetric Spaces written by G. Daniel Mostow and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1973-12-21 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Locally symmetric spaces are generalizations of spaces of constant curvature. In this book the author presents the proof of a remarkable phenomenon, which he calls "strong rigidity": this is a stronger form of the deformation rigidity that has been investigated by Selberg, Calabi-Vesentini, Weil, Borel, and Raghunathan. The proof combines the theory of semi-simple Lie groups, discrete subgroups, the geometry of E. Cartan's symmetric Riemannian spaces, elements of ergodic theory, and the fundamental theorem of projective geometry as applied to Tit's geometries. In his proof the author introduces two new notions having independent interest: one is "pseudo-isometries"; the other is a notion of a quasi-conformal mapping over the division algebra K (K equals real, complex, quaternion, or Cayley numbers). The author attempts to make the account accessible to readers with diverse backgrounds, and the book contains capsule descriptions of the various theories that enter the proof.
Download or read book The Geometry of Curvature Homogeneous Pseudo Riemannian Manifolds written by Peter B. Gilkey and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2007 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Pseudo-Riemannian geometry is an active research field not only in differential geometry but also in mathematical physics where the higher signature geometries play a role in brane theory. An essential reference tool for research mathematicians and physicists, this book also serves as a useful introduction to students entering this active and rapidly growing field. The author presents a comprehensive treatment of several aspects of pseudo-Riemannian geometry, including the spectral geometry of the curvature tensor, curvature homogeneity, and Stanilov-Tsankov-Videv theory."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Semi Riemannian Geometry With Applications to Relativity written by Barrett O'Neill and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 1983-07-29 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an exposition of semi-Riemannian geometry (also called pseudo-Riemannian geometry)--the study of a smooth manifold furnished with a metric tensor of arbitrary signature. The principal special cases are Riemannian geometry, where the metric is positive definite, and Lorentz geometry. For many years these two geometries have developed almost independently: Riemannian geometry reformulated in coordinate-free fashion and directed toward global problems, Lorentz geometry in classical tensor notation devoted to general relativity. More recently, this divergence has been reversed as physicists, turning increasingly toward invariant methods, have produced results of compelling mathematical interest.
Download or read book On Affine Symmetric Spaces written by S. S. Koh and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Differential Geometry written by Jesús A. Alvarez López and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2009 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brief portrait of the life and work of Professor Enrique Vidal Abascal / L.A. Cordero -- pt. A. Foliation theory. Characteristic classes for Riemannian foliations / S. Hurder. Non unique-ergodicity of harmonic measures: Smoothing Samuel Petite's examples / B, Deroin. On the uniform simplicity of diffeomorphism groups / T. Tsuboi. On Bennequin's isotopy lemma and Thurston's inequality / Y. Mitsumatsu. On the Julia sets of complex codimension-one transversally holomorphic foliations / T. Asuke. Singular Riemannian foliations on spaces without conjugate points / A. Lytchak. Variational formulae for the total mean curvatures of a codimension-one distribution / V. Rovenski and P. Walczak. On a Weitzenböck-like formula for Riemannian foliations / V. Slesar. Duality and minimality for Riemannian foliations on open manifolds / X.M. Masa. Open problems on foliations -- pt. B. Riemannian geometry. Graphs with prescribed mean curvature / M. Dajczer. Genuine isometric and conformal deformations of submanifolds / R. Tojeiro. Totally geodesic submanifolds in Riemannian symmetric spaces / S. Klein. The orbits of cohomogeneity one actions on complex hyperbolic spaces / J.C. Díaz-Ramos. Rigidity results for geodesic spheres in space forms / J. Roth. Mean curvature flow and Bernstein-Calabi results for spacelike graphs / G. Li and I.M.C. Salavessa. Riemannian geometric realizations for Ricci tensors of generalized algebraic curvature operators / P. Gilkey, S. Nikc̮ević and D. Westerman. Conformally Osserman multiply warped product structures in the Riemannian setting / M. Brozos-Vázquez, M.E. Vázquez-Abal and R. Vázquez-Lorenzo. Riemannian [symbol]-symmetric spaces / M. Goze and E. Remm. Methods for solving the Jacobi equation. Constant osculating rank vs. constant Jacobi osculating rank / T. Arias-Marco. On the reparametrization of affine homogeneous geodesics / Z. Dus̮ek. Conjugate connections and differential equations on infinite dimensional manifolds / M. Aghasi [und weitere]. Totally biharmonic submanifolds / D. Impera and S. Montaldo. The biharmonicity of unit vector fields on the Poincaré half-space H[symbol] / M.K. Markellos. Perspectives on biharmonic maps and submanifolds / A. Balmus. Contact pair structures and associated metrics / G. Bande and A. Hadjar. Paraquaternionic manifolds and mixed 3-structures / S. Ianus and G.E. Vi̮lcu. On topological obstruction of compact positively Ricci curved manifolds / W.-H. Chen. Gray curvature conditions and the Tanaka-Webster connection / R. Mocanu. Riemannian structures on higher order frame bundles from classical linear connections / J. Kurek and W.M. Mikulski. Distributions on the cotangent bundle from torsion-free connections / J. Kurek and W.M. Mikulski. On the geodesics of the rotational surfaces in the Bianchi-Cartan-Vranceanu spaces / P. Piu and M.M. Profir. Cotangent bundles with general natural Kähler structures of quasi-constant holomorphic sectional curvatures / S.L. Druta̮. Polynomial translation Weingarten surfaces in 3-dimensional Euclidean space / M.I. Munteanu and A.I. Nistor. G-structures defined on pseudo-Riemannian manifolds / I. Sánchez-Rodríguez -- List of participants
Download or read book Causal Symmetric Spaces written by Gestur Olafsson and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 1996-09-11 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended to introduce researchers and graduate students to the concepts of causal symmetric spaces. To date, results of recent studies considered standard by specialists have not been widely published. This book seeks to bring this information to students and researchers in geometry and analysis on causal symmetric spaces. Includes the newest results in harmonic analysis including Spherical functions on ordered symmetric space and the holmorphic discrete series and Hardy spaces on compactly casual symmetric spaces Deals with the infinitesimal situation, coverings of symmetric spaces, classification of causal symmetric pairs and invariant cone fields Presents basic geometric properties of semi-simple symmetric spaces Includes appendices on Lie algebras and Lie groups, Bounded symmetric domains (Cayley transforms), Antiholomorphic Involutions on Bounded Domains and Para-Hermitian Symmetric Spaces
Download or read book Symmetric Spaces Short Courses Presented at Washington University written by William Munger Boothby and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
