Semi-Riemannian Maps and Their Applications / Edition 1

by Eduardo Garcïa-Rïo, D.N. Kupeli

Overview

A major flaw in semi-Riemannian geometry is a shortage of suitable types of maps between semi-Riemannian manifolds that will compare their geometric properties. Here, a class of such maps called semi-Riemannian maps is introduced. The main purpose of this book is to present results in semi-Riemannian geometry obtained by the existence of such a map between semi-Riemannian manifolds, as well as to encourage the reader to explore these maps.
The first three chapters are devoted to the development of fundamental concepts and formulas in semi-Riemannian geometry which are used throughout the work. In Chapters 4 and 5 semi-Riemannian maps and such maps with respect to a semi-Riemannian foliation are studied. Chapter 6 studies the maps from a semi-Riemannian manifold to 1-dimensional semi- Euclidean space. In Chapter 7 some splitting theorems are obtained by using the existence of a semi-Riemannian map.
Audience: This volume will be of interest to mathematicians and physicists whose work involves differential geometry, global analysis, or relativity and gravitation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780792356615
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	04/30/1999
Series:	Mathematics and Its Applications , #475
Edition description:	1999
Pages:	198
Product dimensions:	0.00(w) x 0.00(h) x 0.02(d)

Table of Contents

1 Linear Algebra of Indefinite Inner Product Spaces.- 2 Semi-Riemannian Manifolds.- 3 Second Fundamental Form of a Map.- 4 Semi-Riemannian Maps.- 5 Semi-Riemannian Transversal Maps.- 6 Semi-Riemannian Eikonal Equations and The Semi-Riemannian Regular Interval Theorem.- 7 Applications To Splitting Theorems.- A Submanifolds of Semi-Riemannian Manifolds.- A.1 Semi-Riemannian Submanifolds.- A.2 Degenerate Submanifolds.- B Riemannian and Lorentzian Geometry.- B.1 Riemannian Geometry.- B.2 Lorentzian Geometry.