Introduction to Global Variational Geometry

by Demeter Krupka

The book is devoted to recent research in the global variational theory on smooth manifolds. Its main objective is an extension of the classical variational calculus on Euclidean spaces to (topologically nontrivial) finite-dimensional smooth manifolds; to this purpose the methods of global analysis of differential forms are used. Emphasis is placed on the foundations of the theory of variational functionals on fibered manifolds - relevant geometric...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 946239072X
• ISBN13: 9789462390720
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Atlantis Press
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"