Geometric Methods in Mathematical Physics: Proceedings of an NSF-CBMS Conference Held at the University of Lowell, Massachusetts, March 19–23, 1979

Stuart S. Antman (auth.), Gerald Kaiser, Jerrold E. Marsden (eds.)9780387097428, 0-387-09742-2

Table of contents :
Geometric aspects of global bifurcation in nonlinear elasticity….Pages 1-29
The branching of solutions of Einstein’s equations….Pages 30-48
What does supergravity teach us about gravity?….Pages 49-68
Classical 1/2 spin particles interacting with gravitational fields: A supersymmetric model….Pages 69-77
Generalized constraint algorithm and special presymplectic manifolds….Pages 78-104
Deformations and quantization….Pages 105-121
Holomorphic gauge theory….Pages 122-144
A geometric variational formalism for the theory of nonlinear waves….Pages 145-161
Geometry of jet bundles and the structure of lagrangian and hamiltonian formalisms….Pages 162-218
Involution theorems….Pages 219-257