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This self-contained book starts with the basic material on distributions and foliations. It then gradually introduces and builds the tools needed for studying the geometry of foliated manifolds. The main theme of the book is to investigate the interrelations between foliations of a manifold on the one hand, and the many geometric structures that the manifold may admiton the other hand. Among these structures are: affine, Riemannian, semi-Riemannian, Finsler, symplectic, complex and contact structures. Using these structures, the book presents interesting classes of foliations whose geometry is very rich and promising. These include the classes of: Riemannian, totally geodesic, totally umbilical, minimal, parallel non-degenerate, parallel totally - null, parallel partially - null, symmetric, transversally symmetric, Lagrange, totally real and Legendre foliations. Some of these classes appear for the first time in the literature in book form. Finally, the vertical foliation of a vector bundle is used to develop a gauge theory on the total space of a vector bundle.

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Book category Books in English Mathematics & science Mathematics Geometry

• Full title: Foliations and Geometric Structures
• Author: Aurelian Bejancu, Hani Reda Farran
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 300
• EAN: 9781402037191
• ISBN: 1402037198
• ID: 01416280
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
• Weight: 612 g
• Dimensions: 166 × 241 × 24 mm
• Date of publishing: 22. November 2005

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