Riemannian holonomy groups and calibrated geometry /
Covering an exciting and active area of research at the crossroads of several different fields in mathematics and physics, and drawing on the author's previous work, this text has been written to explain the advanced mathematics involved simply and clearly to graduate students in both disciplin...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2007.
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Colección: | Oxford graduate texts in mathematics ;
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface; Contents; 1 Background material; 2 Introduction to connections, curvature and holonomy groups; 3 Riemannian holonomy groups; 4 Calibrated geometry; 5 Kähler manifolds; 6 The Calabi Conjecture; 7 Calabi-Yau manifolds; 8 Special Lagrangian geometry; 9 Mirror symmetry and the SYZ Conjecture; 10 Hyperkähler and quaternionic Kähler manifolds; 11 The exceptional holonomy groups; 12 Associative, coassociative and Cayley submanifolds; References; Index