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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450722803321

Autore

Ungar Abraham A

Titolo

Analytic hyperbolic geometry [[electronic resource] ] : mathematical foundations and applications / / Abraham A. Ungar

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Jersey, : World Scientific, c2005

ISBN

1-281-89922-4

9786611899226

981-270-327-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (482 p.)

Disciplina

516.9

Soggetti

Geometry, Hyperbolic

Vector algebra

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 445-456) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; 1. Introduction; 2. Gyrogroups; 3. Gyrocommutative Gyrogroups; 4. Gyrogroup Extension; 5. Gyrovectors and Cogyrovectors; 6. Gyrovector Spaces; 7. Rudiments of Differential Geometry; 8. Gyrotrigonometry; 9. Bloch Gyrovector of Quantum Computation; 10. Special Theory of Relativity: The Analytic Hyperbolic Geometric Viewpoint; Notation And Special Symbols; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This is the first book on analytic hyperbolic geometry, fully analogous to analytic Euclidean geometry. Analytic hyperbolic geometry regulates relativistic mechanics just as analytic Euclidean geometry regulates classical mechanics. The book presents a novel gyrovector space approach to analytic hyperbolic geometry, fully analogous to the well-known vector space approach to Euclidean geometry. A gyrovector is a hyperbolic vector. Gyrovectors are equivalence classes of directed gyrosegments that add according to the gyroparallelogram law just as vectors are equivalence classes of directed segme