Progress in Mathematics: Festschrift in Honor of Alan Weinstein

Marsden, Jerrold E.; Ratiu, Tudor S.

One of the world’s foremost geometers, Alan Weinstein has made deep contributions to symplectic and differential geometry, Lie theory, mechanics, and related fields. Written in his honor, the invited papers in this volume reflect the active and vibrant research in these areas and are a tribute to Weinstein’s ongoing influence.

The well-recognized contributors to this text cover a broad range of topics: Induction and reduction for systems with symmetry, symplectic geometry and topology, geometric quantization, the Weinstein Conjecture, Poisson algebra and geometry, Dirac structures, deformations for Lie group actions, Kähler geometry of moduli spaces, theory and applications of Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics and dynamics, symplectic and Poisson groupoids, and quantum representations.

Details

Published by: Birkhäuser

Publication Date: 2004-11-30

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780817635657

DOI: 10.1007/b138687

Dimensions: 235cm x155cm

Pages: 654