Lectures on Geometry

Lectures on Geometry
Author: Edward Witten
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2017-02-16
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0191087815

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This volume contains a collection of papers based on lectures delivered by distinguished mathematicians at Clay Mathematics Institute events over the past few years. It is intended to be the first in an occasional series of volumes of CMI lectures. Although not explicitly linked, the topics in this inaugural volume have a common flavour and a common appeal to all who are interested in recent developments in geometry. They are intended to be accessible to all who work in this general area, regardless of their own particular research interests.

Lectures on the Geometry of Poisson Manifolds

Lectures on the Geometry of Poisson Manifolds
Author: Izu Vaisman
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3034884958

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This book is addressed to graduate students and researchers in the fields of mathematics and physics who are interested in mathematical and theoretical physics, differential geometry, mechanics, quantization theories and quantum physics, quantum groups etc., and who are familiar with differentiable and symplectic manifolds. The aim of the book is to provide the reader with a monograph that enables him to study systematically basic and advanced material on the recently developed theory of Poisson manifolds, and that also offers ready access to bibliographical references for the continuation of his study. Until now, most of this material was dispersed in research papers published in many journals and languages. The main subjects treated are the Schouten-Nijenhuis bracket; the generalized Frobenius theorem; the basics of Poisson manifolds; Poisson calculus and cohomology; quantization; Poisson morphisms and reduction; realizations of Poisson manifolds by symplectic manifolds and by symplectic groupoids and Poisson-Lie groups. The book unifies terminology and notation. It also reports on some original developments stemming from the author's work, including new results on Poisson cohomology and geometric quantization, cofoliations and biinvariant Poisson structures on Lie groups.

Lectures on Poisson Geometry

Lectures on Poisson Geometry
Author: Marius Crainic
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 479
Release: 2021-10-14
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1470466678

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This excellent book will be very useful for students and researchers wishing to learn the basics of Poisson geometry, as well as for those who know something about the subject but wish to update and deepen their knowledge. The authors' philosophy that Poisson geometry is an amalgam of foliation theory, symplectic geometry, and Lie theory enables them to organize the book in a very coherent way. —Alan Weinstein, University of California at Berkeley This well-written book is an excellent starting point for students and researchers who want to learn about the basics of Poisson geometry. The topics covered are fundamental to the theory and avoid any drift into specialized questions; they are illustrated through a large collection of instructive and interesting exercises. The book is ideal as a graduate textbook on the subject, but also for self-study. —Eckhard Meinrenken, University of Toronto

Lectures on Formal and Rigid Geometry

Lectures on Formal and Rigid Geometry
Author: Siegfried Bosch
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2014-08-22
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3319044176

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The aim of this work is to offer a concise and self-contained 'lecture-style' introduction to the theory of classical rigid geometry established by John Tate, together with the formal algebraic geometry approach launched by Michel Raynaud. These Lectures are now viewed commonly as an ideal means of learning advanced rigid geometry, regardless of the reader's level of background. Despite its parsimonious style, the presentation illustrates a number of key facts even more extensively than any other previous work. This Lecture Notes Volume is a revised and slightly expanded version of a preprint that appeared in 2005 at the University of Münster's Collaborative Research Center "Geometrical Structures in Mathematics".

Lectures on Coarse Geometry

Lectures on Coarse Geometry
Author: John Roe
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2003
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0821833324

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Coarse geometry is the study of spaces (particularly metric spaces) from a 'large scale' point of view, so that two spaces that look the same from a great distance are actually equivalent. This book provides a general perspective on coarse structures. It discusses results on asymptotic dimension and uniform embeddings into Hilbert space.

Lectures in Projective Geometry

Lectures in Projective Geometry
Author: A. Seidenberg
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2012-06-14
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0486154734

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An ideal text for undergraduate courses, this volume takes an axiomatic approach that covers relations between the basic theorems, conics, coordinate systems and linear transformations, quadric surfaces, and the Jordan canonical form. 1962 edition.

Lectures on Differential Geometry

Lectures on Differential Geometry
Author: Shlomo Sternberg
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 466
Release: 1999
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0821813854

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This book is based on lectures given at Harvard University during the academic year 1960-1961. The presentation assumes knowledge of the elements of modern algebra (groups, vector spaces, etc.) and point-set topology and some elementary analysis. Rather than giving all the basic information or touching upon every topic in the field, this work treats various selected topics in differential geometry. The author concisely addresses standard material and spreads exercises throughout the text. His reprint has two additions to the original volume: a paper written jointly with V. Guillemin at the beginning of a period of intense interest in the equivalence problem and a short description from the author on results in the field that occurred between the first and the second printings.

Lectures on Geometry

Lectures on Geometry
Author: Nicholas Michael John Woodhouse
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2017
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0198784910

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Lectures on Symplectic Geometry

Lectures on Symplectic Geometry
Author: Ana Cannas da Silva
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2004-10-27
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 354045330X

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The goal of these notes is to provide a fast introduction to symplectic geometry for graduate students with some knowledge of differential geometry, de Rham theory and classical Lie groups. This text addresses symplectomorphisms, local forms, contact manifolds, compatible almost complex structures, Kaehler manifolds, hamiltonian mechanics, moment maps, symplectic reduction and symplectic toric manifolds. It contains guided problems, called homework, designed to complement the exposition or extend the reader's understanding. There are by now excellent references on symplectic geometry, a subset of which is in the bibliography of this book. However, the most efficient introduction to a subject is often a short elementary treatment, and these notes attempt to serve that purpose. This text provides a taste of areas of current research and will prepare the reader to explore recent papers and extensive books on symplectic geometry where the pace is much faster. For this reprint numerous corrections and clarifications have been made, and the layout has been improved.

Lectures on Hyperbolic Geometry

Lectures on Hyperbolic Geometry
Author: Riccardo Benedetti
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3642581587

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Focussing on the geometry of hyperbolic manifolds, the aim here is to provide an exposition of some fundamental results, while being as self-contained, complete, detailed and unified as possible. Following some classical material on the hyperbolic space and the Teichmüller space, the book centers on the two fundamental results: Mostow's rigidity theorem (including a complete proof, following Gromov and Thurston) and Margulis' lemma. These then form the basis for studying Chabauty and geometric topology; a unified exposition is given of Wang's theorem and the Jorgensen-Thurston theory; and much space is devoted to the 3D case: a complete and elementary proof of the hyperbolic surgery theorem, based on the representation of three manifolds as glued ideal tetrahedra.