Cartan for Beginners

DOI10.1090/GSM/175zbMath1361.53001OpenAlexW2766327074MaRDI QIDQ2956944

Thomas A. Ivey, Joseph M. Landsberg

Publication date: 20 January 2017

Published in: Graduate Studies in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1090/gsm/175

zbMATH Keywords

torsionscalar curvaturesymplectic formjetconstant mean curvatureconnectionexterior differential systemsFrobenius theoremalgebraic geometryWeierstrass representationMonge-Ampère equationsPfaffian system\(G\)-structuresCartan-Kähler theoremCartan's method of equivalencemoving framesCauchy-Kowalevski theoremprojective differential geometryRiemannian curvature tensorDarboux's methodCartan algorithmCartan's testsine-Gordon representationVeronese re-embeddingZak and Landman theorems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exterior differential systems (Cartan theory) (58A15) Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to differential geometry (53-01) Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces (53A05) Connections (general theory) (53C05) Projective differential geometry (53A20) (G)-structures (53C10) Equivalence and asymptotic equivalence of ordinary differential equations (34C41)

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