Homogeneous Structures on Riemannian Manifolds

Klappentext The central theme of this book is the theorem of Ambrose and Singer. Zusammenfassung The central theme of this book is the theorem of Ambrose and Singer! which gives for a connected! complete and simply connected Riemannian manifold a necessary and sufficient condition for it to be homogeneous. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The theorem of Ambrose and Singer; 2. Homogeneous Riemannian structures; 3. The eight classes of homogeneous structures; 4. Homogeneous structures on surfaces; 5. Homogeneous structures of type T1; 6. Naturally reductive homogeneous spaces and homogeneous structures of type T3; 7. The Heisenberg group; 8. Examples and the inclusion relations; 9. Generalized Heisenberg groups; 10.Self-dual and anti-self-dual homogeneous structures.

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• Autori: F. Tricerri, F. Vanhecke Tricerri, Franco Vanhecke Tricerri, G. Tricerri, L. Vanhecke
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 23.06.1983
• EAN: 9780521274890
• ISBN: 978-0-521-27489-0
• Pagine: 144
• Serie: London Mathematical Society Le
• Categoria: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Matematica > Geometria