Momentum Maps and Hamiltonian Reduction

by Tudor S Ratiu and Juan-Pablo Ortega

Book Overview

* Winner of the Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer Prize in 2000.

* Reviews the necessary prerequisites, beginning with an introduction to Lie symmetries on Poisson and symplectic manifolds.
* Currently in classroom use in Europe.

* Can serve as a resource for graduate courses and seminars in Hamiltonian mechanics and symmetry, symplectic and Poisson geometry, Lie theory, mathematical physics, and as a comprehensive reference resource for...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1475738137
• ISBN13: 9781475738131
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Birkhauser
• Length: 501 Pages
• Weight: 1.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"