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This volume is an introduction to differential methods in physics. Part I contains a comprehensive presentation of the geometry of manifolds and Lie groups, including infinite dimensional settings. The differential geometric notions introduced in Part I are used in Part II to develop selected topics...
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North-Holland ; Sole distributors for the U.S.A. and Canada, Elsevier Science Pub. Co.,
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| Publisher Address: | Amsterdam ; New York : New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : |
| Publication Dates: | 1988. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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North-Holland mathematics studies ;
154 Notas de matema tica ; 123 |
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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/bookseries/03040208/154 |
| Summary: |
This volume is an introduction to differential methods in physics. Part I contains a comprehensive presentation of the geometry of manifolds and Lie groups, including infinite dimensional settings. The differential geometric notions introduced in Part I are used in Part II to develop selected topics in field theory, from the basic principles up to the present state of the art. This second part is a systematic development of a covariant Hamiltonian formulation of field theory starting from the principle of stationary action. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xviii, 450 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780444705440 0444705449 9780080872650 0080872654 |
| Index Number: | QA1 |
| CLC: | O1 |
| Contents: | pt. 1. Differential geometric preliminaries -- pt. 2. Covariant Hamiltoninan dynamics. |