【图书描述】: 本书介绍了黎曼几何中的很多经典理论,同时重点介绍了光滑流形上的交换群。书后附了很多关于微分流形基本理论的附录,使得该书的内容自封闭。全书对从事该领域研究的研究生和科研人员有很高的参考价值。 【内容简介】: This book treats that part of Riemannian geometry related to more classical topics in a very original,clear and solid style.Before going to Riemannian geometry,the author presents a more general theory of manifolds with a linear connection.Having in mind different generalizations of Riemannian manifolds,it is clearly stressed which notions and theorems belong to Riemannian geometry and which of them are of a more general nature.Much attention is paid to transformation groups of smooth manifolds. Throughout the book,different aspects of symmetric spaces are treated.The author successfully combines the co-ordinate and invariant approaches to differential geometry,which give the reader tools for practical calculations as well as a theoretical understanding of the subject.The book contains a very useful large appendix on foundations of differentiable manifolds and basic structures on them which makes it self-contained and practically independent from other sources. The results are well presented and useful for students in mathematics and theoretical physics,and for experts in these fields.The book can serve as a textbook for students doing geometry,as well as a reference book for professional mathematicians and physicists. 【目录】: Preface Chapter 1. Afne Connections 1. Connection on a Manifold 2. Covariant Differentiation and Parallel Translation Along a Curve 3. Geodesics 4. Exponential Mapping and Normal Neighborhoods 5. Whitehead Theorem 6. Normal Convex Neighborhoods 7. Existence of Leray Coverings
Chapter 2. Covariant Differentiation. Curvature 1. Covariant Differentiation 2. The Case of Tensors of Type (r, 1) 3. Torsion Tensor and Symmetric Connections 4. Geometric Meaning of the Symmetry of a Connection 5. Commutativity of Second Covariant Derivatives 6. Curvature Tensor of an Afne Connection 7. Space with Absolute Parallelism 8. Bianci Identities 9. Trace of the Curvature Tensor 10.Ricci Tensor
Chapter 3. Affine Mappings. Submanifolds 1. Afne Mappings 2. Affinities 3. Afne Coverings 4. Restriction of a Connection to a Submanifold 5. Induced Connection on a Normalized Submanifold 6. Gauss Formula and the Second Fundamental Form of a Normalized Submanifold 7. Totally Geodesic and Auto-Parallel Submanifolds 8. Normal Connection and the Weingarten Formula 9. Van der Waerden-Bortolotti Connection
Chapter 4. Structural Equations. Local Symmetries 1. Torsion and Curvature Forms 2. Caftan Structural Equations in Polar Coordinates 3. Existence of Afne Local Mappings 4. Locally Symmetric Afne Connection Spaces 5. Local Geodesic Symmetries 6. Semisymmetric Spaces
Chapter 5. Symmetric Spaces 1. Globally Symmetric Spaces 2. Germs of Smooth Mappings 3. Extensions of Affine Mappings 4. Uniqueness Theorem 5. Reduction of Locally Symmetric Spaces to Globally Symmetric Spaces 6. Properties of Symmetries in Globally Symmetric Spaces 7. Symmetric Spaces 8. Examples of Symmetric Spaces 9. Coincidence of Classes of Symmetric and Globally Symmetric Spaces
Chapter 6. Connections on Lie Groups 1. Invariant Construction of the Canonical Connection 2. Morphisms of Symmetric Spaces as Affine Mappings 3. Left-Invariant Connections on a Lie Group 4. Cartan Connections 5. Left Cartan Connection 6. Right-Invariant Vector Fields 7. Right Cartan Connection
Chapter 7. Lie Functor 1. Categories 2. Functors 3. Lie Functor 4. Kernel and Image of a Lie Group Homomorphism 5. Campbell-Hausdorff Theorem 6. Dynkin Polynomials 7. Local Lie Groups 8. Bijectivity of the Lie Functor
Chapter 8. Affine Fields and Related Topics 1. Affine Fields 2. Dimension of the Lie Algebra of Affine Fields 3. Completeness of Affine Fields 4. Mappings of Left and Right Translation on a Symmetric Space 5. Derivations on Manifolds with Multiplication 6. Lie Algebra of Derivations 7. Involutive Automorphism of the Derivation Algebra of a Symmetric Space 8. Symmetric Algebras and Lie Ternaries 9. Lie Ternary of a Symmetric Space
Chapter 9. Cartan Theorem 1. Functor s 2. Comparison of the Functor s with the Lie Functor 3. Properties of the Functor s 4. Computation of the Lie Ternary of the Space 5. Fundamental Group of the Quotient Space 6. Symmetric Space with a Given Lie Ternary 7. Coverings 8. Cartan Theorem 9. Identification of Homogeneous Spaces with Quotient Spaces 10.Trauslations of a Symmetric Space 11.Proof of the Cartan Theorem
Chapter 10. Palais and Kobayashi Theorems 1. Infinite-Dimensional Manifolds and Lie Groups 2. Vector Fields Induced by a Lie Group Action 3. Palais Theorem 4. Kobayashi Theorem 5. Affine Automorphism Group 6. Automorphism Group of a Symmetric Space 7. Translation Group of a Symmetric Space
Chapter 11. Lagrangians in Riemannian Spaces 1. Riemannian and Pseudo-Riemannian Spaces 2. Riemannian Connections 3. Geodesics in a Riemannian Space 4. Simplest Problem of the Calculus of Variations 5. Euler-Lagrange Equations 6. Minimum Curves and Extremals 7. Regular Lagrangians 8. Extremals of the Energy Lagrangian
Chapter 12. Metric Properties of Geodesics 1. Length of a Curve in a Riemannian Space 2. Natural Parameter 3. Riemannian Distance and Shortest Arcs 4. Extremals of the Length Lagrangian 5. Riemannian Coordinates 6. Gauss Lemma 7. Geodesics are Locally Shortest Arcs 8. Smoothness of Shortest Arcs 9. Local Existence of Shortest Arcs 10.Intrinsic Metric 11.Hopf-Rinow Theorem
Chapter 13. Harmonic Functionals and Related Topics 1. Riemannian Volume Element 2. Discriminant Tensor 3. Foss-Weyl Formula 4. Case n = 2 5. Laplace Operator on a Riemannian Space 6. The Green Formulas 7. Existence of Harmonic Functions with a Nonzero Differential 8. Conjugate Harmonic Functions 9. Isothermal Coordinates 10. Semi-Cartesian Coordinates 11. Cartesian Coordinates
Chapter 14. Minimal Surfaces 1. Conformal Coordinates 2. Conformal Structures 3. Minimal Surfaces 4. Explanation of Their Name 5. Plateau Problem 6. Free Relativistic Strings 7. Simplest Problem of the Calculus of Variations for Functions of Two Variables 8. Extremals of the Area Functional 9. Case n = 3 10. Representation of Minimal Surfaces Via Holomorphic Functions 11.Weierstrass Formulas 12.Adjoined Minimal Surfaces
Chapter 15. Curvature in Riemannian Space 1. Riemannian Curvature Tensor 2. Symmetries of the Riemannian Tensor 3. Riemannian Tensor as a Functional 4. Walker Identity and Its Consequences 5. Recurrent Spaces 6. Virtual Curvature Tensors 7. Reconstruction of the Bianci Tensor from Its Values on Bivectors …… Chapter 16.Gaussian Curvature Chapter 17.Some Special Tensors Chapter 18.Surfaces with Conformal Structure Chapter 19.Mappings and Submanifolds Ⅰ Chapter 20.Submanifolds Ⅱ Chapter 21.Fundamental Forms of a Hypersurface Chapter 22.Spaces of Constant Curvature Chapter 23.Space Forms Chapter 24.Four-Dimensional Manifolds Chapter 25.Metrics on a Lie Group Ⅰ Chapter 26.Metrics on a Lie Group Ⅱ Chapter 27.Jacobi Theory Chapter 28.Some Additional Theorems Ⅰ Chapter 29.Some Additional Theorems Ⅱ Chapter 30.Smooth Manifolds Chapter 31.Tangent Vectors Chapter 32.Submanifolds of a Smooth Manifold Chapter 33.Vector and Tensor Fields Differential Forms Chapter 34.Vector Bundles Chapter 35.Connections on Vector Bundles Chapter 36.Curvature Tensor Suggested Reading Index
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