The Geometry of Infinite-Dimensional Groups

This monograph gives an overview of various classes of infinite-dimensional Lie groups and their applications in Hamiltonian mechanics, fluid dynamics, integrable systems, gauge theory, and complex geometry. While infinite-dimensional groups often exhibit very peculiar features, this book describes...

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Main Authors: Khesin, Boris. (Author), Wendt, Robert. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
Series:Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete, A Series of Modern Surveys in Mathematics ; 51
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Online Access:https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77263-7
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505 0 # |a Preface -- Introduction -- I Preliminaries -- II Infinite-dimensional Lie Groups: Their Geometry, Orbits and Dynamical Systems -- III Applications of Groups: Topological and Holomorphic Gauge Theories -- Appendices -- A1 Root Systems -- A2 Compact Lie Groups -- A3 Krichever-Novikov Algebras -- A4 Kh̃ler Structures on the Virasoro and Loop Group Coadjoint Orbits -- A5 Metrics and Diameters of the Group of Hamiltonian Diffeomorphisms -- A6 Semi-Direct Extensions of the Diffeomorphism Group and Gas Dynamics -- A7 The Drinfeld-Sokolov Reduction -- A8 Surjectivity of the Exponential Map on Pseudo-Differential Symbols -- A9 Torus Actions on the Moduli Space of Flat Connections -- Bibliography -- Index. 
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