Hamiltonian Dynamics

By Gaetano Vilasi

This is both a textbook and a monograph. It is partially based on a two-semester course, held by the author for third-year students in physics and mathematics at the University of Salerno, on analytical mechanics, differential geometry, symplectic manifolds and integrable systems.

As a textbook, it provides a systematic and self-consistent formulation of Hamiltonian dynamics both in a rigorous coordinate language and in the modern language of differential geometry. It also presents powerful mathematical methods of theoretical physics, especially in gauge theories and general relativity.

As a monograph, the book deals with the advanced research topic of completely integrable dynamics, with both finitely and infinitely many degrees of freedom, including geometrical structures of solitonic wave equations.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9810233086
• ISBN13: 9789810233082
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 8.6"