AuthorDuggal, Krishan L. author
TitleSymmetries of Spacetimes and Riemannian Manifolds [electronic resource] / by Krishan L. Duggal, Ramesh Sharma
ImprintBoston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 1999
Connect tohttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5315-1
Descript X, 218 p. online resource

SUMMARY

This book provides an upto date information on metric, connection and curvaยญ ture symmetries used in geometry and physics. More specifically, we present the characterizations and classifications of Riemannian and Lorentzian manifolds (in particular, the spacetimes of general relativity) admitting metric (i.e., Killing, hoยญ mothetic and conformal), connection (i.e., affine conformal and projective) and curvature symmetries. Our approach, in this book, has the following outstanding features: (a) It is the first-ever attempt of a comprehensive collection of the works of a very large number of researchers on all the above mentioned symmetries. (b) We have aimed at bringing together the researchers interested in differential geometry and the mathematical physics of general relativity by giving an invariant as well as the index form of the main formulas and results. (c) Attempt has been made to support several main mathematical results by citing physical example(s) as applied to general relativity. (d) Overall the presentation is self contained, fairly accessible and in some special cases supported by an extensive list of cited references. (e) The material covered should stimulate future research on symmetries. Chapters 1 and 2 contain most of the prerequisites for reading the rest of the book. We present the language of semi-Euclidean spaces, manifolds, their tensor calculus; geometry of null curves, non-degenerate and degenerate (light like) hypersurfaces. All this is described in invariant as well as the index form


SUBJECT

  1. Mathematics
  2. Topological groups
  3. Lie groups
  4. Partial differential equations
  5. Applied mathematics
  6. Engineering mathematics
  7. Differential geometry
  8. Physics
  9. Mathematics
  10. Differential Geometry
  11. Theoretical
  12. Mathematical and Computational Physics
  13. Applications of Mathematics
  14. Topological Groups
  15. Lie Groups
  16. Partial Differential Equations