Symplectic Geometry and Topology: No.7 (IAS/Park City Mathematics Series) - Hardcover

Eliashberg, Yakov; Traynor, Lisa

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0821808389 ISBN 13: 9780821808382

Publisher: American Mathematical Society, 1999

Synopsis

Symplectic geometry has its origins as a geometric language for classical mechanics. But it has recently exploded into an independent field interconnected with many other areas of mathematics and physics. The goal of the IAS/Park City Mathematics Institute Graduate Summer School on Symplectic Geometry and Topology was to give an intensive introduction to these exciting areas of current research. Included in this proceedings are lecture notes from the following courses: Introduction to Symplectic Topology by D. McDuff; Holomorphic Curves and Dynamics in Dimension Three by H. Hofer; An Introduction to the Seiberg-Witten Equations on Symplectic Manifolds by C. Taubes; Lectures on Floer Homology by D. Salamon; A Tutorial on Quantum Cohomology by A. Givental; Euler Characteristics and Lagrangian Intersections by R. MacPherson; Hamiltonian Group Actions and Symplectic Reduction by L. Jeffrey; and Mechanics: Symmetry and Dynamics by J. Marsden

Edition details

• Publisher: American Mathematical Society
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0821808389
• ISBN 13: 9780821808382
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 430