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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462755503321

Autore

Weinstein Tilla <1934->

Titolo

An introduction to Lorentz surfaces [[electronic resource] /] / by Tilla Weinstein

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : Walter de Gruyter, 1996

ISBN

3-11-082163-X

Edizione

[Reprint 2011]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (227 p.)

Collana

De Gruyter Expositions in Mathematics ; ; 22

Disciplina

530.1/54

Soggetti

Topology

Lorentz groups

Generalized spaces

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. [201]-204) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Null lines on Lorentz surfaces -- Chapter 2 Box surfaces, yardsticks and global properties of Lorentzian metrics -- Chapter 3 Conformal equivalence and the Poincaré index -- Chapter 4 Kulkarni's conformal boundary -- Chapter 5 Using the conformal boundary -- Chapter 6 Conformal invariants on Lorentz surfaces -- Chapter 7 Classical surface theory and harmonically immersed surfaces -- Chapter 8 Conformal realization of Lorentz surfaces in Minkowski 3-space -- Bibliography -- Index