
Semi-Riemannian Maps and Their Applications
Kluwer Academic Publishers
Published on 30. April 1999
Book
Hardback
X, 198 pages
978-0-7923-5661-5 (ISBN)
Description
A major flaw in semi-Riemannian geometry is a shortage of suitable types of maps between semi-Riemannian manifolds that will compare their geometric properties. Here, a class of such maps called semi-Riemannian maps is introduced. The main purpose of this book is to present results in semi-Riemannian geometry obtained by the existence of such a map between semi-Riemannian manifolds, as well as to encourage the reader to explore these maps.
The first three chapters are devoted to the development of fundamental concepts and formulas in semi-Riemannian geometry which are used throughout the work. In Chapters 4 and 5 semi-Riemannian maps and such maps with respect to a semi-Riemannian foliation are studied. Chapter 6 studies the maps from a semi-Riemannian manifold to 1-dimensional semi- Euclidean space. In Chapter 7 some splitting theorems are obtained by using the existence of a semi-Riemannian map.
Audience: This volume will be of interest to mathematicians and physicists whose work involves differential geometry, global analysis, or relativity and gravitation.
The first three chapters are devoted to the development of fundamental concepts and formulas in semi-Riemannian geometry which are used throughout the work. In Chapters 4 and 5 semi-Riemannian maps and such maps with respect to a semi-Riemannian foliation are studied. Chapter 6 studies the maps from a semi-Riemannian manifold to 1-dimensional semi- Euclidean space. In Chapter 7 some splitting theorems are obtained by using the existence of a semi-Riemannian map.
Audience: This volume will be of interest to mathematicians and physicists whose work involves differential geometry, global analysis, or relativity and gravitation.
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Edition
1999 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Dordrecht
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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X, 198 p.
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
489 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7923-5661-5 (9780792356615)
DOI
10.1007/978-94-017-2979-6
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Esteban Calvino-Louzao is a member of the research group in Riemannian Geometry at the Department of Geometry and Topology of the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain). He received his Ph.D. in 2011 from the University of Santiago under the direction of E. Garcia-Rio and R. Vazquez-Lorenzo. His research specialty is Riemannian and pseudo-Riemannian geometry. He has published more than 20 research articles and booksEduardo Garcia-Rio is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain). He is a member of the editorial board of Differential Geometry and its Applications and The Journal of Geometric Analysis and leads the research group in Riemannian Geometry at the Department of Geometry and Topology of the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain). He received his Ph.D. in 1992 from the University of Santiago under the direction of A. Bonome and L. Hervella. His research specialty is Differential Geometry. He has published more than 120 research articles and books.Peter B. Gilkey is a Professor of Mathematics and a member of the Institute of Theoretical Science at the University of Oregon. He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society and is a member of the editorial board of Results in Mathematics, Differential Geometry and its Applications, and The Journal of Geometric Analysis. He received his Ph.D. in 1972 from Harvard University under the direction of L. Nirenberg. His research specialties are Differential Geometry, Elliptic Partial Differential Equations, and Algebraic topology. He has published more than 275 research articles and books.JeongHyeong Park is a Professor of Mathematics at Sungkyunkwan University and is an associate member of the KIAS (Korea). She received her Ph.D. in 1990 from Kanazawa University in Japan under the direction of H. Kitahara. Her research specialties are spectral geometry of Riemannian submersion and geometric structures on manifolds like eta-Einstein manifoldsand H-contact manifolds. She organized the geometry section of AMC 2013 (The Asian Mathematical Conference 2013), the ICM 2014 satellite conference on Geometric analysis, and geometric structures on manifolds (2016). She has published more than 90 research papers and books.Ramon Vazquez-Lorenzo is a member of the research group in Riemannian Geometry at the Department of Geometry and Topology of the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain). He is a member of the Spanish Research Network on Relativity and Gravitation. He received his Ph.D. in 1997 from the University of Santiago de Compostela under the direction of E. Garcia-Rio and R. Castro. His research focuses mainly on Differential Geometry, with special emphasis on the study of the curvature and the algebraic properties of curvature operators in the Lorentzian and in the higher signature settings. He has published more than 60 research articles and books.
Content
1 Linear Algebra of Indefinite Inner Product Spaces.- 2 Semi-Riemannian Manifolds.- 3 Second Fundamental Form of a Map.- 4 Semi-Riemannian Maps.- 5 Semi-Riemannian Transversal Maps.- 6 Semi-Riemannian Eikonal Equations and The Semi-Riemannian Regular Interval Theorem.- 7 Applications To Splitting Theorems.- A Submanifolds of Semi-Riemannian Manifolds.- A.1 Semi-Riemannian Submanifolds.- A.2 Degenerate Submanifolds.- B Riemannian and Lorentzian Geometry.- B.1 Riemannian Geometry.- B.2 Lorentzian Geometry.