Flow Lines and Algebraic Invariants in Contact Form Geometry
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Birkhäuser Boston
Published: September 23, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780817643188
Subjects: Algebra; Differential & Riemannian geometry; Riemannian manifolds; Differential Geometry; Mathematics; Science/Mathematics; Geometry - Differential; Mathematics / Geometry / Differential; ODEs; PDEs; algebraic topology; nonlinear analysis; Geometry - General; Global differential geometry; Manifolds (Mathematics)
First sentence: This monograph is related to two previous ones, [1] and [2], in the same direction and is an attempt to create a new tool for the study of one or several aspects of the dynamics of a contact structure and a contact vector field in the family which it defines.