Momentum Maps and Hamiltonian Reduction
Book Details
Author(s)Juan-Pablo Ortega, Tudor S. Ratiu
PublisherBirkhäuser Boston
ISBN / ASIN0817643079
ISBN-139780817643072
AvailabilityUsually ships in 1 to 2 months
Sales Rank3,226,768
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
* 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 researchers.
