Cartan Geometries and Their Symmetries: A Lie Algebroid Approach

by Mike Crampin and David Saunders

Lie groupoids and Lie algebroids.- Connections on Lie groupoids and Lie algebroids.- Groupoids of fibre morphisms.- Four case studies.- Symmetries.- Cartan geometries.- A comparison with alternative approaches.- Infinitesimal Cartan geometries on TM.- Projective geometry: the full version.- Conformal geometry: the full version.- Developments and geodesics.- Cartan theory of second-order differential equations.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9462391912
• ISBN13: 9789462391918
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Atlantis Press
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"