Non-Riemannian Geometry

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Pub. Date: 2005-06-17
Publisher(s): Dover Publications
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Summary

This concise text deals chiefly with manifolds dominated by the geometry of paths developed by the author 7a prominent figure in the field 7and others.

Table of Contents

Asymmetric Connections
Transformation of coordinates
1(2)
Coefficients of connection
3(2)
Covariant differentiation with respect to the L's
5(2)
Generalized identities of Ricci
7(1)
Other fundamental tensors
8(3)
Covariant differentiation with respect to the I's
11(1)
Parallelism. Paths
12(2)
A theorem on partial differential equations
14(4)
Fields of parallel contra variant vectors
18(4)
Parallel displacement of a contravariant vector around an infinitesimal circuit
22(5)
Pseudo-orthogonal contravariant and covariant vectors. Parallelism of covariant vectors
27(2)
Changes of connection which preserve parallelism
29(6)
Tensors independent of the choice of ψ
35(1)
Semi-symmetric connections
36(2)
Transversals of parallelism of a given vector-field and associate vector-fields
38(5)
Associate directions
43(1)
Determination of a tensor by an ennuple of vectors and invariants
44(3)
The invariants γ νμσ of an ennuple
47(3)
Geometric properties expressed in terms of the invariants νμσ
50(3)
Symmetric Connections
Geodesic coordinates
53(2)
The curvature tensor and other fundamental tensors
55(1)
Equations of the paths
56(2)
Normal coordinates
58(4)
Curvature of a curve
62(2)
Extension of the theorem of Fermi to symmetric connections
64(4)
Normal tensors
68(4)
Extensions of a tensor
72(2)
The equivalence of symmetric connections
74(4)
Riemannian spaces. Flat spaces
78(3)
Symmetric connections of Weyl
81(2)
Homogeneous first integrals of the equations of the paths
83(4)
Projective Geometry of Paths
Projective change of affine connection. The Weyl tensor
87(4)
Affine normal coordinates under a projective change of connection
91(3)
Projectively flat spaces
94(4)
Coefficients of a projective connection
98(2)
The equivalence of projective connections
100(4)
Normal affine connection
104(2)
Projective parameters of a path
106(1)
Coefficients of a projective connection as tensors
107(3)
Projective coordinates
110(1)
Projective normal coordinates
111(5)
Significance of a projective change of affine connection
116(1)
Homogeneous first integrals under a projective change
117(2)
Spaces for which the equations of the paths admit n(n+1)/2 independent homogeneous linear first integrals
119(3)
Transformations of the equations of the paths
122(2)
Collineations in an affinely connected space
124(5)
Conditions for the existence of infinitesimal collineations
129(4)
Continuous groups of collineations
133(1)
Collineations in a Riemannian space
134(3)
The Geometry of Sub-Spaces
Covariant pseudonormal to a hypersurface. The vector-field να
137(4)
Transversals of a hypersurface which are paths of the enveloping space
141(2)
Tensors in a hypersurface derived from tensors in the enveloping space
143(5)
Symmetric connection induced in a hypersurface
148(2)
Fundamental derived tensors in a hypersurface
150(2)
The generalized equations of Gauss and Codazzi
152(2)
Contravariant pseudonormal
154(4)
Fundamental equations when the determinant ω is not zero
158(2)
Parallelism and associate directions in a hypersurface
160(2)
Curvature of a curve in a hypersurface
162(1)
Asymptotic lines, conjugate directions and lines of curvature of a hypersurface
163(3)
Projectively flat spaces for which Bij is symmetric
166(4)
Covariant pseudonormals to a sub-space
170(1)
Derived tensors in a sub-space. Induced affine connection
171(1)
Fundamental derived tensors in a sub-space
172(3)
Generalized equations of Gauss and Codazzi
175(2)
Parallelism in a sub-space. Curvature of a curve in a sub-space
177(1)
Projective change of induced connection
178(3)
Bibliography 181

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