This is both a textbook and a monograph. It is partially based on a two-semester course, held by the author for third-year students in physics and mathematics at the University of Salerno, on analytical mechanics, differential geometry, symplectic manifolds and integrable systems. As a textbook, it provides a systematic and self-consistent formulation of Hamiltonian dynamics both in a rigorous coordinate language and in the modern language of differential geometry. It also presents powerful mathematical methods of theoretical physics, especially in gauge theories and general relativity. As a monograph, the book deals with the advanced research topic of completely integrable dynamics, with both finitely and infinitely many degrees of freedom, including geometrical structures of solitonic wave equations.
By:
Gaetano Vilasi (Univ Of Salerno Italy) Imprint: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Country of Publication: Singapore Dimensions:
Height: 230mm,
Width: 163mm,
Spine: 29mm
Weight: 744g ISBN:9789810233082 ISBN 10: 9810233086 Pages: 456 Publication Date:12 March 2001 Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
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A / AS level
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Further / Higher Education
Format:Hardback Publisher's Status: Active