Cosmology in (2 + 1) -Dimensions, Cyclic Models, and Deformations of M2,1. (AM-121) (Annals of Mathematics Studies) - Softcover

Book 117 of 202: Annals of Mathematics Studies

Guillemin, Victor

 
9780691085142: Cosmology in (2 + 1) -Dimensions, Cyclic Models, and Deformations of M2,1. (AM-121) (Annals of Mathematics Studies)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0691085145 ISBN 13: 9780691085142
Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1989

Synopsis

The subject matter of this work is an area of Lorentzian geometry which has not been heretofore much investigated: Do there exist Lorentzian manifolds all of whose light-like geodesics are periodic? A surprising fact is that such manifolds exist in abundance in (2 + 1)-dimensions (though in higher dimensions they are quite rare). This book is concerned with the deformation theory of M2,1 (which furnishes almost all the known examples of these objects). It also has a section describing conformal invariants of these objects, the most interesting being the determinant of a two dimensional "Floquet operator" invented by Paneitz and Segal.

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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Publication date
1989
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0691085145
ISBN 13 
9780691085142
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
236

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