Projective Differential Geometry Old and New
From the Schwarzian Derivative to the Cohomology of Diffeomorphism Groups
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- Authors:
- V. Ovsienko, Université Lyon I
- S. Tabachnikov, Pennsylvania State University
- Date Published: December 2004
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521831864
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Ideas of projective geometry keep reappearing in seemingly unrelated fields of mathematics. This book provides a rapid route for graduate students and researchers to contemplate the frontiers of contemporary research in this classic subject. The authors include exercises and historical and cultural comments relating the basic ideas to a broader context.
Read more- Presents and summarizes recent research scattered in mathematical journals, and features historical, cultural and bibliographical comments collected at the end of each section
- Numerous exercises help the reader to master basic techniques and make it possible to avoid lengthy computation in the text of the book
- A unique feature of this book is that it puts classical projective differential geometry into a broader mathematical context and connects it with contemporary mathematics and mathematical physics
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- Date Published: December 2004
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521831864
- length: 262 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 160 x 20 mm
- weight: 0.497kg
- contains: 53 b/w illus. 35 exercises
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface: why projective?
1. Introduction
2. The geometry of the projective line
3. The algebra of the projective line and cohomology of Diff(S1)
4. Vertices of projective curves
5. Projective invariants of submanifolds
6. Projective structures on smooth manifolds
7. Multi-dimensional Schwarzian derivatives and differential operators
Appendix 1. Five proofs of the Sturm theorem
Appendix 2. The language of symplectic and contact geometry
Appendix 3. The language of connections
Appendix 4. The language of homological algebra
Appendix 5. Remarkable cocycles on groups of diffeomorphisms
Appendix 6. The Godbillon–Vey class
Appendix 7. The Adler–Gelfand–Dickey bracket and infinite-dimensional Poisson geometry
Bibliography
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