The purpose of this book is to provide core material in nonlinear analysis for mathematicians, physicists, engineers, and mathematical biologists. The main goal is to provide a working knowledge of manifolds, dynamical systems, tensors, and differential forms. Some applications to Hamiltonian mechan
Manifolds, Tensor Analysis, and Applications
β Scribed by Ralph Abraham, Jerrold E. Marsden, Tudor Ratiu (auth.)
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York
- Year
- 1988
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 668
- Series
- Applied Mathematical Sciences 75
- Edition
- 2
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
The purpose of this book is to provide core material in nonlinear analysis for mathematicians, physicists, engineers, and mathematical biologists. The main goal is to provide a working knowledge of manifolds, dynamical systems, tensors, and differential forms. Some applications to Hamiltonian mechanics, fluid meΒ chanics, electromagnetism, plasma dynamics and control thcory arc given in Chapter 8, using both invariant and index notation. The current edition of the book does not deal with Riemannian geometry in much detail, and it does not treat Lie groups, principal bundles, or Morse theory. Some of this is planned for a subsequent edition. Meanwhile, the authors will make available to interested readers supplementary chapters on Lie Groups and Differential Topology and invite comments on the book's contents and development. Throughout the text supplementary topics are given, marked with the symbols ~ and {l:;J. This device enables the reader to skip various topics without disturbing the main flow of the text. Some of these provide additional background material intended for completeness, to minimize the necessity of consulting too many outside references. We treat finite and infinite-dimensional manifolds simultaneously. This is partly for efficiency of exposition. Without advanced applications, using manifolds of mappings, the study of infinite-dimensional manifolds can be hard to motivate.
β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Topology....Pages 1-39
Banach Spaces and Differential Calculus....Pages 40-140
Manifolds and Vector Bundles....Pages 141-237
Vector Fields and Dynamical Systems....Pages 238-337
Tensors....Pages 338-391
Differential Forms....Pages 392-463
Integration on Manifolds....Pages 464-559
Applications....Pages 560-630
Back Matter....Pages 631-656
β¦ Subjects
Manifolds and Cell Complexes (incl. Diff.Topology); Analysis; Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics; Systems Theory, Control; Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control; Optimization
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