Info
- Utilizzare la checkbox di selezione a fianco di ciascun documento per attivare le funzionalità di stampa, invio email, download nei formati disponibili del (i) record.
Semi-Riemannian geometry [[electronic resource] ] : with applications to relativity / / Barrett O'Neill
| Semi-Riemannian geometry [[electronic resource] ] : with applications to relativity / / Barrett O'Neill |
| Autore | O'Neill Barrett |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Academic Press, 1983 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (483 p.) |
| Disciplina |
510 s 516.3/73 19
510 s516.373 516.373 |
| Collana | Pure and applied mathematics |
| Soggetto topico |
Geometry, Riemannian
Manifolds (Mathematics) Calculus of tensors Relativity (Physics) |
| ISBN |
1-281-76876-6
9786611768768 0-08-057057-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Front Cover; SEMI-RIEMANNIAN GEOMETRY; Copyright Page; CONTENTS; Preface; Notation and Terminology; CHAPTER 1. MANIFOLD THEORY; Smooth Manifolds; Smooth Mappings; Tangent Vectors; Differential Maps; Curves; Vector Fields; One-Forms; Submanifolds; Immersions and Submersions; Topology of Manifolds; Some Special Manifolds; Integral Curves; CHAPTER 2. TENSORS; Basic Algebra; Tensor Fields; Interpretations; Tensors at a Point; Tensor Components; Contraction; Covariant Tensors; Tensor Derivations; Symmetric Bilinear Forms; Scalar Products; CHAPTER 3. SEMI-RIEMANNIAN MANIFOLDS; Isometries
The Levi-Civita ConnectionParallel Translation; Geodesics; The Exponential Map; Curvature; Sectional Curvature; Semi-Riemannian Surfaces; Type-Changing and Metric Contraction; Frame Fields; Some Differential Operators; Ricci and Scalar Curvature; Semi-Riemannian Product Manifolds; Local Isometries; Levels of Structure; CHAPTER 4. SEMI-RIEMANNIAN SUBMANIFOLDS; Tangents and Normals; The Induced Connection; Geodesics in Submanifolds; Totally Geodesic Submanifolds; Semi-Riemannian Hypersurfaces; Hyperquadrics; The Codazzi Equation; Totally Umbilic Hypersurfaces; The Normal Connection A Congruence TheoremIsometric Immersions; Two-Parameter Maps; CHAPTER 5. RIEMANNIAN AND LORENTZ GEOMETRY; The Gauss Lemma; Convex Open Sets; Arc Length; Riemannian Distance; Riemannian Completeness; Lorentz Causal Character; Timecones; Local Lorentz Geometry; Geodesics in Hyperquadrics; Geodesics in Surfaces; Completeness and Extendibility; CHAPTER 6. SPECIAL RELATIVITY; Newtonian Space and Time; Newtonian Space-Time; Minkowski Spacetime; Minkowski Geometry; Particles Observed; Some Relativistic Effects; Lorentz-Fitzgerald Contraction; Energy-Momentum; Collisions; An Accelerating Observer CHAPTER 7. CONSTRUCTIONSDeck Transformations; Orbit Manifolds; Orientability; Semi-Riemannian Coverings; Lorentz Time-Orientability; Volume Elements; Vector Bundles; Local Isometries; Matched Coverings; Warped Products; Warped Product Geodesics; Curvature of Warped Products; Semi-Riemannian Submersions; CHAPTER 8. SYMMETRY AND CONSTANT CURVATURE; Jacobi Fields; Tidal Forces; Locally Symmetric Manifolds; Isometries of Normal Neighborhoods; Symmetric Spaces; Simply Connected Space Forms; Transvections; CHAPTER 9. ISOMETRIES; Semiorthogonal Groups; Some Isometry Groups Time-Orientability and Space-OrientabilityLinear Algebra; Space Forms; Killing Vector Fields; The Lie Algebra i(M); I( M ) as Lie Group; Homogeneous Spaces; CHAPTER 10. CALCULUS OF VARIATIONS; First Variation; Second Variation; The Index Form; Conjugate Points; Local Minima and Maxima; Some Global Consequences; The Endmanifold Case; Focal Points; Applications; Variation of E; Focal Points along Null Geodesics; A Causality Theorem; CHAPTER 11. HOMOGENEOUS AND SYMMETRIC SPACES; More about Lie Groups; Bi-Invariant Metrics; Coset Manifolds; Reductive Homogeneous Spaces; Symmetric Spaces Riemannian Symmetric Spaces |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782496103321 |
O'Neill Barrett
|
||
| New York, : Academic Press, 1983 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Semi-Riemannian geometry : with applications to relativity / / Barrett O'Neill
| Semi-Riemannian geometry : with applications to relativity / / Barrett O'Neill |
| Autore | O'Neill Barrett |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Academic Press, 1983 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (483 p.) |
| Disciplina |
510 s
516.3/73 |
| Collana | Pure and applied mathematics |
| Soggetto topico |
Geometry, Riemannian
Manifolds (Mathematics) Calculus of tensors Relativity (Physics) |
| ISBN |
1-281-76876-6
9786611768768 0-08-057057-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Front Cover; SEMI-RIEMANNIAN GEOMETRY; Copyright Page; CONTENTS; Preface; Notation and Terminology; CHAPTER 1. MANIFOLD THEORY; Smooth Manifolds; Smooth Mappings; Tangent Vectors; Differential Maps; Curves; Vector Fields; One-Forms; Submanifolds; Immersions and Submersions; Topology of Manifolds; Some Special Manifolds; Integral Curves; CHAPTER 2. TENSORS; Basic Algebra; Tensor Fields; Interpretations; Tensors at a Point; Tensor Components; Contraction; Covariant Tensors; Tensor Derivations; Symmetric Bilinear Forms; Scalar Products; CHAPTER 3. SEMI-RIEMANNIAN MANIFOLDS; Isometries
The Levi-Civita ConnectionParallel Translation; Geodesics; The Exponential Map; Curvature; Sectional Curvature; Semi-Riemannian Surfaces; Type-Changing and Metric Contraction; Frame Fields; Some Differential Operators; Ricci and Scalar Curvature; Semi-Riemannian Product Manifolds; Local Isometries; Levels of Structure; CHAPTER 4. SEMI-RIEMANNIAN SUBMANIFOLDS; Tangents and Normals; The Induced Connection; Geodesics in Submanifolds; Totally Geodesic Submanifolds; Semi-Riemannian Hypersurfaces; Hyperquadrics; The Codazzi Equation; Totally Umbilic Hypersurfaces; The Normal Connection A Congruence TheoremIsometric Immersions; Two-Parameter Maps; CHAPTER 5. RIEMANNIAN AND LORENTZ GEOMETRY; The Gauss Lemma; Convex Open Sets; Arc Length; Riemannian Distance; Riemannian Completeness; Lorentz Causal Character; Timecones; Local Lorentz Geometry; Geodesics in Hyperquadrics; Geodesics in Surfaces; Completeness and Extendibility; CHAPTER 6. SPECIAL RELATIVITY; Newtonian Space and Time; Newtonian Space-Time; Minkowski Spacetime; Minkowski Geometry; Particles Observed; Some Relativistic Effects; Lorentz-Fitzgerald Contraction; Energy-Momentum; Collisions; An Accelerating Observer CHAPTER 7. CONSTRUCTIONSDeck Transformations; Orbit Manifolds; Orientability; Semi-Riemannian Coverings; Lorentz Time-Orientability; Volume Elements; Vector Bundles; Local Isometries; Matched Coverings; Warped Products; Warped Product Geodesics; Curvature of Warped Products; Semi-Riemannian Submersions; CHAPTER 8. SYMMETRY AND CONSTANT CURVATURE; Jacobi Fields; Tidal Forces; Locally Symmetric Manifolds; Isometries of Normal Neighborhoods; Symmetric Spaces; Simply Connected Space Forms; Transvections; CHAPTER 9. ISOMETRIES; Semiorthogonal Groups; Some Isometry Groups Time-Orientability and Space-OrientabilityLinear Algebra; Space Forms; Killing Vector Fields; The Lie Algebra i(M); I( M ) as Lie Group; Homogeneous Spaces; CHAPTER 10. CALCULUS OF VARIATIONS; First Variation; Second Variation; The Index Form; Conjugate Points; Local Minima and Maxima; Some Global Consequences; The Endmanifold Case; Focal Points; Applications; Variation of E; Focal Points along Null Geodesics; A Causality Theorem; CHAPTER 11. HOMOGENEOUS AND SYMMETRIC SPACES; More about Lie Groups; Bi-Invariant Metrics; Coset Manifolds; Reductive Homogeneous Spaces; Symmetric Spaces Riemannian Symmetric Spaces |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910825965103321 |
|
O'Neill Barrett
|
||
| New York, : Academic Press, 1983 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||