Hansjorg Geiges

An Introduction to Contact Topology

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This self-contained text, first published in 2008, is an introduction to contact topology. Ideal for graduate courses on contact geometry, and as a reference for researchers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 458
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 891g
• ISBN-13: 9780521865852
• ISBN-10: 0521865859
• Artikelnr.: 23116637

Autorenporträt

Hansjörg Geiges is Professor of Mathematics in the Mathematisches Institut at Universität zu Köln.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
1. Facets of Contact Geometry
2. Contact Manifolds
3. Knots in Contact 3-Manifolds
4. Contact Structures on 3-Manifolds
5. Symplectic Fillings and Convexity
6. Contact Surgery
7. Further Constructions of Contact Manifolds
8. Contact Structures on 5-Manifolds
Appendix A. The generalised Poincaré lemma
Appendix B. Time-dependent vector fields
References
Notation Index
Author Index
Subject Index.