This volume on pure and applied differential geometry, includes topics on submanifold theory, affine differential geometry and applications of geometry in engineering sciences. The conference was dedicated to the 70th birthday of Prof Katsumi Nomizu. Papers on the scientific work and life of Katsumi Nomizu are also included.
Sample Chapter(s)
Opportunities and Indebtedness (1,331 KB)
Contents:
- Opportunities and Indebtedness (K Nomizu)
- Reflections on Some Differential Geometric Work of Katsumi Nomizu (P Dombrowski)
- The Influence of Katsumi Nomizu on Affine Differential Geometry (U Simon)
- On Harmonic 2-Spheres in S4 (J Bolton & L M Woodward)
- Dupin Hypersurfaces (T E Cecil & G R Jensen)
- Some Obstructions to Slant Immersions (B-Y Chen)
- Causality Conditions and Hausdorff Orbit Spaces in Spacetimes (S Harris & R J Low)
- Conjugate Connections in Principal Bundles (S Kobayashi & E Shinozaki)
- Pseudo Riemannian Metrics with Signature Type Change (M Kriele & M Kossowski)
- Oscillator and Pendulum Equation on Pseudo-Riemannian Manifolds, and Conformal Vector Fields (W Kühnel & H-B Rademacher)
- On the Metric Structure of Nonnegatively Curved Manifolds (G Walschap)
- From Differential Geometry Through Arrangements of Hyperplanes to Matrices Over 92 and Back (A West)
- Almost Symplectic and Almost Complex Structures (T Willmore)
- and other papers
Readership: Mathematicians.