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Dynamics on Lorentz manifolds

By Scot Adams

Book information

Publisher
World Scientific
Year
2001
ISBN
9789810243821, 9810243820
LCC
QA613 .A412 2001
Open Library ID
OL3579751M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
2 MB (1647406 bytes)
Edition
1st
Pages
418\418
Time added
2009-08-06 05:14:26

Description

Within the general framework of the dynamics of "large" groups on geometric spaces, the focus is on the types of groups that can act in complicated ways on Lorentz manifolds, and on the structure of the resulting manifolds and actions. This particular area of dynamics is an active one, and not all the results are in their final form. However, at this point, a great deal can be said about the particular Lie groups that come up in this context. It is impressive that, even assuming very weak recurrence of the action, the list of possible groups is quite restricted. For the most complicated of these groups, one can also describe reasonably well the local structure of the actions that arise. This advanced text is also appropriate to a course for mathematics graduate students who have completed their first year of study.

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