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Wir sind gerne für Sie daThe theory of foliations of manifolds was created in the forties of the last century by Ch. Ehresmann and G. Reeb [ER44]. Since then, the subject has enjoyed a rapid development and thousands of papers investigating foliations have appeared. A list of papers and preprints on foliations up to 1995 can be found in Tondeur [Ton97]. Due to the great interest of topologists and geometers in this rapidly ev- ving theory, many books on foliations have also been published one after the other. We mention, for example, the books written by: I. Tamura [Tam76], G. Hector and U. Hirsch [HH83], B. Reinhart [Rei83], C. Camacho and A.L. Neto [CN85], H. Kitahara [Kit86], P. Molino [Mol88], Ph. Tondeur [Ton88], [Ton97], V. Rovenskii [Rov98], A. Candel and L. Conlon [CC03]. Also, the survey written by H.B. Lawson, Jr. [Law74] had a great impact on the de- lopment of the theory of foliations. So it is natural to ask: why write yet another book on foliations? The answerisverysimple.Ourareasofinterestandinvestigationaredi?erent.The main theme of this book is to investigate the interrelations between foliations of a manifold on one hand, and the many geometric structures that the ma- foldmayadmitontheotherhand.Amongthesestructureswemention:a?ne, Riemannian, semi–Riemannian, Finsler, symplectic, and contact structures.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9781402037191
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-1-4020-3719-1
- Verlag: Springer Netherlands
- Erscheinungstermin: 22.11.2005
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 2006
- Serie: Mathematics and Its Applications
- Produktform: Gebunden
- Gewicht: 1360 g
- Seiten: 300
- Format (B x H x T): 160 x 241 x 22 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt