Geometric asymptotics / / by Victor Guillemin and Shlomo Sternberg
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| Autore: |
Guillemin Victor <1937->
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| Titolo: |
Geometric asymptotics / / by Victor Guillemin and Shlomo Sternberg
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| Pubblicazione: | Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , [1977] |
| ©1977 | |
| Edizione: | Revised ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (500 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 516.3/6 |
| Soggetto topico: | Geometry, Differential |
| Asymptotic expansions | |
| Geometrical optics | |
| Persona (resp. second.): | SternbergShlomo |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | ""TABLE OF CONTENTS""; ""PREFACE""; ""NOTATION""; ""CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION. THE METHOD OF STATIONARY PHASE""; ""APPENDIX I. MORSE'S LEMMA AND SOME GENERALIZATIONS""; ""CHAPTER II. DIFFERENTIAL OPERATORS AND ASYMPTOTIC SOLUTIONS""; ""Â1. Differential operators""; ""Â2. Asymptotic sections""; ""Â3. The LÃneburg-Lax-Ludwig technique""; ""Â4. The methods of characteristics""; ""Â5. Bi-characteristics""; ""Â6. The transport equation""; ""Â7. The Maslov cycle and the Bohr-Sommerfeld quantization conditions""; ""CHAPTER III. GEOMETRICAL OPTICS"" |
| ""Â1. The laws of refraction and reflection""""Â2. Focusing and magnification""; ""Â3. Hamilton's method""; ""Â4. First order optics""; ""Â5. The Seidel aberrations""; ""Â6. The asymptotic solution of Maxwell's equations""; ""CHAPTER IV. SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY""; ""Â1. The Darboux-Weinstein theorem""; ""Â2. Symplectic vector spaces""; ""Â3. The cross index and the Maslov class""; ""Â4. Functorial properties of Lagrangian submanifolds""; ""Â5. Local parametrizations of Lagrangian submanifolds""; ""Â6. Periodic Hamiltonian systems""; ""Â7. Homogeneous symplectic spaces"" | |
| ""Â8. Multisymplectic structures and the calculus of variations""""CHAPTER V. GEOMETRIC QUANTIZATION""; ""Â1. Curvature forms and vector bundles""; ""Â2. The group of automorphisms of an Hermitian line bundle""; ""Â3. Polarizations""; ""Â4. Metalinear manifolds and half forms""; ""Â5. Metaplectic manifolds""; ""Â6. The pairing of half form sections""; ""Â7. The metaplectic representation""; ""Â8. Some examples""; ""CHAPTER VI. GEOMETRIC ASPECTS OF DISTRIBUTIONS""; ""Â1. Elementary functorial properties of distributions""; ""Â2. Traces and characters""; ""Â3. The wave front set"" | |
| ""Â4. Lagrangian distributions """"Â5. The symbol calculus""; ""Appendix to Section 5""; ""Â6. Fourier integral operators""; ""Â7. The transport equation""; ""Â8. Some applications to spectral theory""; ""APPENDIX TO CHAPTER VI. THE PLANCHEREL FORMULA FOR THE COMPLEX SEMI-SIMPLE LIE GROUPS""; ""CHAPTER VII. COMPOUND ASYMPTOTICS""; ""Â0. Introduction""; ""Â1. The asymptotic Fourier transform""; ""Â2. The frequency set""; ""Â3. Functorial properties of compound asymptotics""; ""Â4. The symbol calculus""; ""Â5. Pointwise behavior of compound asymptotics and Bernstein's theorem"" | |
| ""Appendix to Section 5 of Chapter VII""""Â6. Behavior near caustics""; ""Â7. Iterated S[sub(1)] and S[sub(2,0)] singularities, computations""; ""Â8. Proofs of the normal forms""; ""Â9. Behavior near caustics (continued)""; ""APPENDIX II. VARIOUS FUNCTORIAL CONSTRUCTIONS""; ""Â1. The category of smooth vector bundles""; ""Â2. The fiber product""; ""INDEX""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""W"" | |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Geometric asymptotics |
| ISBN: | 0-8218-1633-0 |
| 0-8218-3208-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910146558303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Mathematical surveys and monographs ; ; number 14.