Elementary symplectic topology and mechanics /

Elementary symplectic topology and mechanics /

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Author / Creator:	Cardin, Franco, author.
Imprint:	Cham [Switzerland] : Springer, [2015]
Description:	1 online resource.
Language:	English
Series:	Lecture notes of the Unione Matematica Italiana ; 16 Lecture notes of the Unione Matematica Italiana ; 16.
Subject:	Symplectic and contact topology. Symplectic and contact topology.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11090316

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ISBN:	9783319110264 3319110268 9783319110257 331911025X
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references. Vendor-supplied metadata.
Summary:	This is a short tract on the essentials of differential and symplectic geometry together with a basic introduction to several applications of this rich framework: analytical mechanics, the calculus of variations, conjugate points & Morse index, and other physical topics. A central feature is the systematic utilization of Lagrangian submanifolds and their Maslov-Hr̲mander generating functions. Following this line of thought, first introduced by Wlodemierz Tulczyjew, geometric solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi equations, Hamiltonian vector fields and canonical transformations are described by suitable Lagrangian submanifolds belonging to distinct well-defined symplectic structures. This unified point of view has been particularly fruitful in symplectic topology, which is the modern Hamiltonian environment for the calculus of variations, yielding sharp sufficient existence conditions. This line of investigation was initiated by Claude Viterbo in 1992; here, some primary consequences of this theory are exposed in Chapter 8: aspects of Poincar'̌s last geometric theorem and the Arnol'd conjecture are introduced. In Chapter 7 elements of the global asymptotic treatment of the highly oscillating integrals for the Schrd̲inger equation are discussed: as is well known, this eventually leads to the theory of Fourier Integral Operators. This short handbook is directed toward graduate students in Mathematics and Physics and to all those who desire a quick introduction to these beautiful subjects.
Other form:	Original 331911025X 9783319110257
Standard no.:	10.1007/978-3-319-11026-4

Table of Contents:

Beginning
Notes on Differential Geometry
Symplectic Manifolds
Poisson brackets environment
Cauchy Problem for H-J equations
Calculus of Variations and Conjugate Points
Asymptotic Theory of Oscillating Integrals
Lusternik-Schnirelman and Morse
Finite Exact Reductions
Other instances
Bibliography.