Basic Concepts of Synthetic Differential Geometry (Texts in the Mathematical Sciences)
Basic Concepts of Synthetic Differential Geometry (Texts in the Mathematical Sciences) by R. Lavendhomme
English | 1996 | ISBN: 1441947566 | 320 Pages | DJVU | 2.10 MB
English | 1996 | ISBN: 1441947566 | 320 Pages | DJVU | 2.10 MB
Starting at an introductory level, the book leads rapidly to important and often new results in synthetic differential geometry. From rudimentary analysis the book moves to such important results as: a new proof of De Rham's theorem; the synthetic view of global action, going as far as the Weil characteristic homomorphism; the systematic account of structured Lie objects, such as Riemannian, symplectic, or Poisson Lie objects; the view of global Lie algebras as Lie algebras of a Lie group in the synthetic sense; and lastly the synthetic construction of symplectic structure on the cotangent bundle in general. Thus while the book is limited to a naive point of view developing synthetic differential geometry as a theory in itself, the author nevertheless treats somewhat advanced topics, which are classic in classical differential geometry but new in the synthetic context.
Audience: The book is suitable as an introduction to synthetic differential geometry for students as well as more qualified mathematicians.