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Contact Geometry and Nonlinear Differential Equations: Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications, cartea 101

Autor Alexei Kushner, Valentin Lychagin, Vladimir Rubtsov
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 21 dec 2006
Methods from contact and symplectic geometry can be used to solve highly non-trivial nonlinear partial and ordinary differential equations without resorting to approximate numerical methods or algebraic computing software. This book explains how it's done. It combines the clarity and accessibility of an advanced textbook with the completeness of an encyclopedia. The basic ideas that Lie and Cartan developed at the end of the nineteenth century to transform solving a differential equation into a problem in geometry or algebra are here reworked in a novel and modern way. Differential equations are considered as a part of contact and symplectic geometry, so that all the machinery of Hodge-deRham calculus can be applied. In this way a wide class of equations can be tackled, including quasi-linear equations and Monge-Ampere equations (which play an important role in modern theoretical physics and meteorology).
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780521824767
ISBN-10: 0521824761
Pagini: 518
Ilustrații: 58 b/w illus. 30 tables
Dimensiuni: 162 x 241 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.86 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Seria Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications

Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Introduction; Part I. Symmetries and Integrals: 1. Distributions; 2. Ordinary differential equations; 3. Model differential equations and Lie superposition principle; Part II. Symplectic Algebra: 4. Linear algebra of symplectic vector spaces; 5. Exterior algebra on symplectic vector spaces; 6. A Symplectic classification of exterior 2-forms in dimension 4; 7. Symplectic classification of exterior 2-forms; 8. Classification of exterior 3-forms on a 6-dimensional symplectic space; Part III. Monge-Ampère Equations: 9. Symplectic manifolds; 10. Contact manifolds; 11. Monge-Ampère equations; 12. Symmetries and contact transformations of Monge-Ampère equations; 13. Conservation laws; 14. Monge-Ampère equations on 2-dimensional manifolds and geometric structures; 15. Systems of first order partial differential equations on 2-dimensional manifolds; Part IV. Applications: 16. Non-linear acoustics; 17. Non-linear thermal conductivity; 18. Meteorology applications; Part V. Classification of Monge-Ampère Equations: 19. Classification of symplectic MAEs on 2-dimensional manifolds; 20. Classification of symplectic MAEs on 2-dimensional manifolds; 21. Contact classification of MAEs on 2-dimensional manifolds; 22. Symplectic classification of MAEs on 3-dimensional manifolds.

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'As a whole, (together with the many and very clearly worked out examples presented, which is one of the most important and highly appreciated merits of this book) the text is well written, very well organised and the exposition is very clear. So, I would allow myself to recommend it as a very useful stand-by introduction to the geometric view on linear and nonlinear differential equations.' Journal of Geometry and Symmetry in Physics

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Shows novel and modern ways of solving differential equations using methods from contact and symplectic geometry.