Geometry: Volume 2
Subtitle: Spaces of Constant Curvature (Encyclopaedia of Mathematical Sciences)
Contributors: D.V. Alekseevskij (Contributor); O.V. Shvartsman (Contributor); A.S. Solodovnikov (Contributor); E.B. Vinberg (Contributor, Editor); V. Minachin (Translator)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: June 11, 1993
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9783540520009
Subjects: Geometry; Groups & group theory; Topology; Mathematical Analysis; Mathematics; Group Theory; Geometry - Differential; Crystallographic Groups; Fuchsian Groups; Hyperbolic Geometry; Lobachevsky Space; Mathematics / Geometry / General; Reflection Groups; Spaces of Constant Curvature
First sentence: This chapter provides the definition of spaces of constant curvature and of their basic structures, and describes their place among homogeneous spaces on the one hand and Riemannian manifolds on the other.