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Whoever you are! How can I but offer you divine leaves . . . ? Walt Whitman The object of study in modern differential geometry is a manifold with a differ ential structure, and usually some additional structure as well. Thus, one is given a topological space M and a family of homeomorphisms, called coordinate sys tems, between open subsets of the space and open subsets of a real vector space V. It is supposed that where two domains overlap, the images are related by a diffeomorphism, called a coordinate transformation, between open subsets of V. M has associated with it a tangent bundle, which is a vector bundle with fiber V and group the general linear group GL(V). The additional structures that occur include Riemannian metrics, connections, complex structures, foliations, and many more. Frequently there is associated to the structure a reduction of the group of the tangent bundle to some subgroup G of GL(V). It is particularly pleasant if one can choose the coordinate systems so that the Jacobian matrices of the coordinate transformations belong to G. A reduction to G is called a G-structure, which is called integrable (or flat) if the condition on the Jacobians is satisfied. The strength of the integrability hypothesis is well-illustrated by the case of the orthogonal group On. An On-structure is given by the choice of a Riemannian metric, and therefore exists on every smooth manifold.

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Book category Knihy po anglicky Mathematics & science Mathematics Geometry

• Full title: Differential Geometry of Foliations
• Subtitle: The Fundamental Integrability Problem
• Author: B.L. Reinhart
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 212
• EAN: 9783642690174
• ISBN: 9783642690174
• ID: 06621277
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Weight: 374 g
• Dimensions: 244 × 170 × 11 mm
• Date of publishing: 19. January 2012

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