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Riemannian Geometry and Geometric Analysis / by Jürgen Jost
Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Universitext | SpringerLink BücherPublisher: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2011Description: Online-Ressource (XIII, 611p. 16 illus., 4 illus. in color, digital)ISBN:- 9783642212987
- 516.373
- 516.36
- QA641-670
- QA649
Contents:
Summary: 1. Riemannian Manifolds -- 2. Lie Groups and Vector Bundles -- 3. The Laplace Operator and Harmonic Differential Forms -- 4. Connections and Curvature -- 5. Geodesics and Jacobi Fields -- 6. Symmetric Spaces and K¨ahler Manifolds -- 7. Morse Theory and Floer Homology -- 8. Harmonic Maps between Riemannian Manifolds -- 9. Harmonic Maps from Riemann Surfaces -- 10. Variational Problems from Quantum Field Theory -- A. Linear Elliptic Partial Differential Equations -- A.1 Sobolev Spaces -- A.2 Linear Elliptic Equations -- A.3 Linear Parabolic Equations -- B. Fundamental Groups and Covering Spaces -- Bibliography -- Index.Summary: This established reference work continues to lead its readers to some of the hottest topics of contemporary mathematical research. The previous edition already introduced and explained the ideas of the parabolic methods that had found a spectacular success in the work of Perelman at the examples of closed geodesics and harmonic forms. It also discussed further examples of geometric variational problems from quantum field theory, another source of profound new ideas and methods in geometry. The 6th edition includes a systematic treatment of eigenvalues of Riemannian manifolds and several other additions. Also, the entire material has been reorganized in order to improve the coherence of the book. From the reviews: "This book provides a very readable introduction to Riemannian geometry and geometric analysis. ... With the vast development of the mathematical subject of geometric analysis, the present textbook is most welcome." Mathematical Reviews "...the material ... is self-contained. Each chapter ends with a set of exercises. Most of the paragraphs have a section ‘Perspectives’, written with the aim to place the material in a broader context and explain further results and directions." Zentralblatt MATH .PPN: PPN: 1651005265Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-2-SEB | ZDB-2-SXMS | ZDB-2-SMA
""Riemannian Geometry and Geometric Analysis ""; ""Preface ""; ""Contents ""; ""1 Riemannian Manifolds""; ""1.1 Manifolds and Differentiable Manifolds""; ""1.2 Tangent Spaces""; ""1.3 Submanifolds""; ""1.4 Riemannian Metrics""; ""1.5 Existence of Geodesics on Compact Manifolds""; ""1.6 The Heat Flow and the Existence of Geodesics""; ""1.7 Existence of Geodesics on Complete Manifolds""; ""Exercises for Chapter 1""; ""2 Lie Groups and Vector Bundles""; ""2.1 Vector Bundles""; ""2.2 Integral Curves of Vector Fields. Lie Algebras""; ""2.3 Lie Groups""; ""2.4 Spin Structures""
""Exercises for Chapter 2""""3 The Laplace Operator and Harmonic Differential Forms""; ""3.1 The Laplace Operator on Functions""; ""3.2 The Spectrum of the Laplace Operator""; ""3.3 The Laplace Operator on Forms""; ""3.4 Representing Cohomology Classes by Harmonic Forms""; ""3.5 Generalizations""; ""3.6 The Heat Flow and Harmonic Forms""; ""Exercises for Chapter 3""; ""4 Connections and Curvature""; ""4.1 Connections in Vector Bundles""; ""4.2 Metric Connections. The Yang�MillsFunctional""; ""4.3 The Levi-Civita Connection""; ""4.4 Connections for Spin Structures and the Dirac Operator""
""4.5 The Bochner Method""""4.6 Eigenvalue Estimates by the Method of Li�Yau""; ""4.7 The Geometry of Submanifolds""; ""4.8 Minimal Submanifolds""; ""Exercises for Chapter 4""; ""5 Geodesics and Jacobi Fields""; ""5.1 First and second Variation of Arc Length and Energy""; ""5.2 Jacobi Fields""; ""5.3 Conjugate Points and Distance Minimizing Geodesics""; ""5.4 Riemannian Manifolds of Constant Curvature""; ""5.5 The Rauch Comparison Theorems and Other Jacobi Field Estimates""; ""5.6 Geometric Applications of Jacobi Field Estimates""
""5.7 Approximate Fundamental Solutions and Representation Formulas""""5.8 The Geometry of Manifolds of Nonpositive Sectional Curvature""; ""Exercises for Chapter 5""; ""A Short Survey on Curvature and Topology""; ""6 Symmetric Spaces and KÃ?hler Manifolds""; ""6.1 Complex Projective Space""; ""6.2 KÃ?hler Manifolds""; ""6.3 The Geometry of Symmetric Spaces""; ""6.4 Some Results about the Structure of Symmetric Spaces""; ""6.5 The Space Sl(n, R)/SO(n, R)""; ""6.6 Symmetric Spaces of Noncompact Type""; ""Exercises for Chapter 6""; ""7 Morse Theory and Floer Homology""
""7.1 Preliminaries: Aims of Morse Theory""""7.2 The Palais�Smale Condition, Existence of Saddle Points""; ""7.3 Local Analysis""; ""7.4 Limits of Trajectories of the Gradient Flow""; ""7.5 Floer Condition, Transversality and Z2-Cohomology""; ""7.6 Orientations and Z-homology""; ""7.7 Homotopies""; ""7.8 Graph flows""; ""7.9 Orientations""; ""7.10 The Morse Inequalities""; ""7.11 The Palais�Smale Condition and the Existence of Closed Geodesics""; ""Exercises for Chapter 7""; ""8 Harmonic Maps between Riemannian Manifolds""; ""8.1 Definitions""
""8.2 Formulas for Harmonic Maps. The Bochner Technique""
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