Gradient Flow in Metric Spaces -- Curves and Gradients in Metric Spaces -- Existence of Curves of Maximal Slope and their Variational Approximation -- Proofs of the Convergence Theorems -- Uniqueness, Generation of Contraction Semigroups, Error Estimates -- Notation -- Gradient Flow in the Space of Probability Measures -- Preliminary Results on Measure Theory -- The Optimal Transportation Probl…
Sheaves and all that -- The category of differential triads -- Lie sheaves of groups -- Principal sheaves -- Vector and associated sheaves -- Connections on principal sheaves -- Connections on vector and associated sheaves -- Curvature -- Chern-Weil theory -- Applications and further examples.
Introductory Chapter -- Laplace Operators on Riemannian Manifolds -- Lagrangian Formalism on Riemannian Manifolds -- Harmonic Maps from a Lagrangian Viewpoint -- Conservation Theorems -- Hamiltonian Formalism -- Hamilton-Jacobi Theory -- Minimal Hypersurfaces -- Radially Symmetric Spaces -- Fundamental Solutions for Heat Operators with Potentials -- Fundamental Solutions for Elliptic Operators …
1+1 Dimensional Integrable Systems -- 2+1 Dimensional Integrable Systems -- N + 1 Dimensional Integrable Systems -- Surfaces of Constant Curvature, Bäcklund Congruences and Darboux Transformation -- Darboux Transformation and Harmonic Map -- Generalized Self-Dual Yang-Mills Equations and Yang-Mills-Higgs Equations -- Two Dimensional Toda Equations and Laplace Sequences of Surfaces in Projectiv…
Approximate Parametrisation of Confidence Sets -- Challenges in Surface-Surface Intersections -- Computing the Topology of Three-Dimensional Algebraic Curves -- Distance Properties of ?-Points on Algebraic Curves -- Distance Separation Measures Between Parametric Curves and Surfaces Toward Intersection and Collision Detection Applications -- Elementary Theory of Del Pezzo Surfaces -- The Geomet…
Curvature of Contact Metric Manifolds -- A Case for Curvature: the Unit Tangent Bundle -- Convex Hypersurfaces in Hadamard Manifolds -- Contact Metric Geometry of the Unit Tangent Sphere Bundle -- Topological-antitopological Fusion Equations, Pluriharmonic Maps and Special Kähler Manifolds -- ?2 and ?-Deformation Theory for Holomorphic and Symplectic Manifolds -- Commutative Condition on the S…
Dirac structures, momentum maps, and quasi-Poisson manifolds -- Construction of Ricci-type connections by reduction and induction -- A mathematical model for geomagnetic reversals -- Nonholonomic systems via moving frames: Cartan equivalence and Chaplygin Hamiltonization -- Thompson’s conjecture for real semisimple Lie groups -- The Weinstein conjecture and theorems of nearby and almost exist…
Kinematics of the continuous media -- Stress Tensor -- Balance principles -- Constitutive relations -- Variational methods.This book develops a modern presentation of Continuum Mechanics, oriented towards numerical applications in the fields of nonlinear analysis of solids, structures and fluid mechanics. The kinematics of the continuum deformation, including pull-back / push-forward transforma…
Introduction and Overview (E. Bick, F.D. Steffen) -- Topological Concepts in Gauge Theories (F. Lenz) -- Aspects of BRST Quantization (J.W. van Holten) -- Chiral Anomalies and Toplogy (J. Zinn-Justin) -- Supersymmetric Solitons and Topology (M. Shifman) -- Forces From Connes`Geometry (T. Schücker).Application of the concepts and methods of topology and geometry have led to a deeper understandi…
Topological Aspects of Four-Manifolds -- The Theory of Donaldson Invariants -- The Theory of Seiberg-Witten Invariants -- Supersymmetry in Four Dimensions -- Topological Quantum Field Theories in Four Dimensions -- The Mathai-Quillen Formalism -- The Seiberg-Witten Solution of N = 2 SUSY Yang-Mills Theory -- The u-plane Integral -- Some Applications of the u-plane Integral -- Further Developmen…