Cosmology in - Couverture rigide

Guillemin, Victor

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0691085137 ISBN 13 : 9780691085135

Editeur : Princeton University Press, 1989

Synopsis

The subject matter of this work is an area of Lorentzian geometry which has not been heretofore much investigated: Do there exist Lorentzian manifolds all of whose light-like geodesics are periodic? A surprising fact is that such manifolds exist in abundance in (2 + 1)-dimensions (though in higher dimensions they are quite rare). This book is concerned with the deformation theory of M2,1 (which furnishes almost all the known examples of these objects). It also has a section describing conformal invariants of these objects, the most interesting being the determinant of a two dimensional "Floquet operator," invented by Paneitz and Segal.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The subject matter of this work is an area of Lorentzian geometry which has not been heretofore much investigated: Do there exist Lorentzian manifolds all of whose light-like geodesics are periodic? A surprising fact is that such manifolds exist in abundance in (2 + 1)-dimensions (though in higher dimensions they are quite rare). This book is concerned with the deformation theory of M2,1 (which furnishes almost all the known examples of these objects). It also has a section describing conformal invariants of these objects, the most interesting being the determinant of a two dimensional "Floquet operator" invented by Paneitz and Segal.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Princeton University Press
• Date d'édition: 1989
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0691085137
• ISBN 13: 9780691085135
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 240
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• Personne responsable: non disponible