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Record Nr.

UNISA996466374603316

Autore

Berndt Jürgen <1959->

Titolo

Generalized Heisenberg groups and Damek-Ricci harmonic spaces / / Jürgen Berndt, Franco Tricerri, Lieven Vanhecke

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Germany ; ; New York, New York : , : Springer-Verlag, , [1995]

©1995

ISBN

3-540-49171-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 1995.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VIII, 128 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Mathematics, , 0075-8434 ; ; 1598

Classificazione

53C25

22E25

Disciplina

510

Soggetti

Riemannian manifolds

Global differential geometry

Geometry, Riemannian

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [115]-122) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Symmetric-like riemannian manifolds -- Generalized Heisenberg groups -- Damek-Ricci spaces.

Sommario/riassunto

Generalized Heisenberg groups, or H-type groups, introduced by A. Kaplan, and Damek-Ricci harmonic spaces are particularly nice Lie groups with a vast spectrum of properties and applications. These harmonic spaces are homogeneous Hadamard manifolds containing the H-type groups as horospheres. These notes contain a thorough study of their Riemannian geometry by means of a detailed treatment of their Jacobi vector fields and Jacobi operators. Some problems are included and will hopefully stimulate further research on these spaces. The book is written for students and researchers, assuming only basic knowledge of Riemannian geometry, and it contains a brief survey of the background material needed to follow the entire treatment.