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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828511203321

Titolo

Differential geometry : the interface between pure and applied mathematics : proceedings of a conference held April 23-25, 1986, with support from the National Science Foundation / / Mladen Luksic, Clyde Martin, William Shadwick, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , [1987]

©1987

ISBN

0-8218-7657-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (286 p.)

Collana

Contemporary mathematics, , 0271-4132 ; ; 68 , 0271-4132

Disciplina

516.3/6

Soggetti

Geometry, Differential

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"The Conference on Differential Geometry: The Interface between Pure and Applied Mathematics was held at San Antonio, Texas, April 23-25, 1986"--p. [vi].

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents --  Preface --  Geometric Aspects of Hessenberg Matrices --  Differential Geometric Aspects of Continuum Mechanics in Higher Dimensions --  Lax-Type Flows on Grassmann Manifolds --  Some Global Aspects of the Feedback Linearization Problem --  On Notions of Equivalence of Variational Problems with One Independent Variable --  A Singular Problem in Elasticity Theory --  Controllability of Linear Systems, Differential Geometry of Curves in Grassmannians, and Riccati Equations --  Explicit Solutions for an Estimation Problem in Manifolds Associated with Lie Groups --  Overdetermined Equivalence Problems with an Application to Feedback Equivalence --  The Symbolic Computation of Higher-Order Derivations: Symmetries of Expressions and Actions of Group Algebras --  Cartan's Method of Equivalence and the Classification of Second"Order Ordinary Differential Equations --  A Necessary Condition for Local Controllability --  Normal Forms for Linear and Nonlinear Systems --  Adaptive Stabilization of Multivariable Linear Systems --  Approximation, Interpolation and Sampling --  Stability Analysis of a Rigid Body with a Flexible Attachment Using the Energy-Casimir Method.