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Differential geometry and the calculus of variations /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hermann, Robert, 1931-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Elsevier Science, 1968.
Colección:Mathematics in science and engineering ; v. 49.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Tangent vector-vector field formalism
  • Differential forms
  • Specialization to euclidean spaces : differential manifolds
  • Mappings, submanifolds, and the implicit function theorem
  • Jacobi bracket and the lie theory of ordinary differential equations
  • Frobenius complete integrability theorem
  • Reduction of dimension when a lie algebra of vector fields leaves a vector-fields invariant
  • Lie groups
  • Classical mechanics of particles and continua
  • Differential forms and variational problems
  • Hamilton-Jacobi theory
  • Extremal fields and sufficient conditions for a minimum
  • Ordinary problems of the calculus of variations
  • Groups of symmetries of variational problems : applications to mechanics
  • Elliptic functions
  • Accessibility problems for path systems
  • Affine connections on differential manifolds
  • Rinmannian affine connection and the first variation formula
  • Hopf-Rinow theorem applications to the theory of covering spaces
  • Second variation formula and Jacobi vector fields
  • Sectional curvature and the elementary comparision theorems
  • Submanifolds of Riemannian manifolds
  • Groups of isometries
  • Deformation of submanifolds in Riemannian spaces
  • First-order invariants of submanifolds and convexity for affinely connected manifolds
  • Affine groups of automorphisms, induced connections on submanifolds, projective changes of connection
  • Laplace-Beltrami operator
  • Characteristics and shock waves
  • Morse index theorem
  • Complex manifolds and their submanifolds
  • Mechanics on Riemannian manifolds.