Metric Structures for Riemannian and Non-Riemannian Spaces
Subtitle: Based on Structures Metriques des Varietes Riemanniennes (Progress in Mathematics)
Contributors: P. Pansu (Editor); J. LaFontaine (Editor); S.M. Bates (Translator)
Edition: 1st ed. 1999. Corr. 2nd printing edition
Publisher: Birkhäuser Boston
Published: April 20, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 608
ISBN-13: 9780817638986
Subjects: Differential & Riemannian geometry; Probability & statistics; Mathematics; Science/Mathematics; Probability & Statistics - General; Geometry - Analytic; Mathematics / Geometry / Analytic; Mathematics / Geometry / Differential; Mathematics : Probability & Statistics - General; Structures; diff.geometry; diff.topology; manifolds; Geometry - Differential; Riemannian Manifolds
First sentence: In classical Riemannian geometry, one begins with a C manifold X and then studies smooth, positive-definite sections g of the bundle S2T X.