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" Applications of affine and Weyl geometry / "
Eduardo García-Río [and others].
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854255
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García-Río, Eduardo.
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Applications of affine and Weyl geometry /\ Eduardo García-Río [and others].
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[San Rafael, Calif.] :: Morgan & Claypool,, ©2013.
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Synthesis lectures on mathematics and statistics,; #13
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1 online resource (xv, 152 pages) :: illustrations.
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1608457591
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: 1608457605
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: 9781608457595
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: 9781608457601
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9781608457595
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-145) and index.
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1. Basic notions and concepts -- 1.1 Basic manifold theory -- 1.2 Connections -- 1.3 Curvature models in the real setting -- 1.4 Kähler geometry -- 1.5 Curvature decompositions -- 1.6 Walker structures -- 1.7 Metrics on the cotangent bundle -- 1.8 Self-dual Walker metrics -- 1.9 Recurrent curvature -- 1.10 Constant curvature -- 1.11 The spectral geometry of the curvature tensor.
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2. The geometry of deformed Riemannian extensions -- 2.1 Basic notational conventions -- 2.2 Examples of affine Osserman Ivanov-Petrova manifolds -- 2.3 The spectral geometry of the curvature tensor of affine surfaces -- 2.4 Homogeneous 2-dimensional affine surfaces -- 2.5 The spectral geometry of the curvature tensor of deformed Riemannian extensions.
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3. The geometry of modified Riemannian extensions -- 3.1 Four-dimensional Osserman manifolds and models -- 3.2 Para-Kähler manifolds of constant para-holomorphic sectional curvature -- 3.3 Higher-dimensional Osserman metrics -- 3.4 Osserman metrics with non-trivial Jordan normal form -- 3.5 (Semi) para-complex Osserman manifolds.
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4. (para)-Kähler-Weyl manifolds -- 4.1 Notational conventions -- 4.2 (para)-Kähler-Weyl structures if m> 6 -- 4.3 (para)-Kähler-Weyl structures if m = 4 -- 4.4 (para)-Kähler-Weyl lie groups if m = 4 -- 4.5 (para)-Kähler-Weyl tensors if m = 4 -- 4.6 Realizability of (para)-Kähler-Weyl tensors if m = 4.
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Bibliography -- Authors' biographies -- Index.
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| Abstract
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Pseudo-Riemannian geometry is, to a large extent, the study of the Levi-Civita connection, which is the unique torsion-free connection compatible with the metric structure. There are, however, other affine connections which arise in different contexts, such as conformal geometry, contact structures, Weyl structures, and almost Hermitian geometry. In this book, we reverse this point of view and instead associate an auxiliary pseudo-Riemannian structure of neutral signature to certain affine connections and use this correspondence to study both geometries. We examine Walker structures, Riemannian extensions, and Kähler-Weyl geometry from this viewpoint. This book is intended to be accessible to mathematicians who are not expert in the subject and to students with a basic grounding in differential geometry. Consequently, the first chapter contains a comprehensive introduction to the basic results and definitions we shall need - proofs are included of many of these results to make it as self-contained as possible. Para-complex geometry plays an important role throughout the book and consequently is treated carefully in various chapters, as is the representation theory underlying various results. It is a feature of this book that, rather than as regarding para-complex geometry as an adjunct to complex geometry, instead, we shall often introduce the para-complex concepts first and only later pass to the complex setting. The second and third chapters are devoted to the study of various kinds of Riemannian extensions that associate to an affine structure on a manifold a corresponding metric of neutral signature on its cotangent bundle. These play a role in various questions involving the spectral geometry of the curvature operator and homogeneous connections on surfaces. The fourth chapter deals with Kähler-Weyl geometry, which lies, in a certain sense, midway between affine geometry and Kähler geometry. Another feature of the book is that we have tried wherever possible to find the original references in the subject for possible historical interest. Thus, we have cited the seminal papers of Levi-Civita, Ricci, Schouten, and Weyl, to name but a few exemplars. We have also given different proofs of various results than those that are given in the literature, to take advantage of the unified treatment of the area given herein.
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Geometry, Affine.
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Geometry, Riemannian.
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Kählerian structures.
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Riemannian manifolds.
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Geometry, Affine.
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Geometry, Riemannian.
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Kählerian structures.
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MATHEMATICS-- Geometry-- General.
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Riemannian manifolds.
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| Dewey Classification
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516.4
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QA477.A662 2013
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Gilkey, Peter B.
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Nikcevic, Stana.
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Vázquez-Lorenzo, Ramón.
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