Handbook of normal frames and coordinates

MaRDI QIDQ2498057zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Bozhidar Z. Iliev

Publication date 9 August 2006

Published in Progress in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0610037

zbMATH Keywords

affine connectionsinertial systemsnormal coordiantesnormal frames

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to differential geometry (53-01) Linear and affine connections (53B05) Connections (general theory) (53C05) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Vector fields, frame fields in differential topology (57R25) Differentiable structures in differential topology (57R55)

Abstract: The main subject of the book is an up-to-date and in-depth survey of the theory of normal frames and coordinates in differential geometry. The book can be used as a reference manual, review of the existing results and introduction to some new ideas and developments. In the book can be found practically all existing essential results and methods concerning normal frames and coordinates. Most of the results are represented in full detail with full, in some cases new, proofs. All classical results are expanded and generalized in various directions. Theorems of existence, uniqueness and, possibly, holonomicity of the normal frames and coordinates are proved; mostly, the proofs are constructive and some their parts can be used independently for other tasks. Besides published results, their extensions and generalizations, the book contains completely new results which appear for the first time.

Review text

This book assumes some basic knowledge of multilinear algebra and mathematical analysis of functions of several variables. It can serve as a reference manual, introduction and review of normal frames and normal coordinates. It contains an explanation of preliminary notions such as differentiable manifolds, vector bundles and connections. A frame on a differentiable manifold \(M\) equipped with an affine connection is called normal on a subset \(U \subset M\) if the Christoffel symbols of this connection vanish on \(U.\) This notion is generalized to vector bundles and vector bundle connections. The existence and unicity of normal frames and coordinates, especially if \(U\) is a single point or a path, are investigated in many instances (Riemannian geometry, general affine connections and also vector bundles equipped by a connection). The book contains examples of many types of frames and/or coordinates such as Riemannian-Fermi- and geodesic ones. Some historical remarks about the development of this topic are included as well. In the first three chapters, normal frames and coordinates on manifolds are investigated (Chapters I, II, III). In chapters IV and V, the theory of normal frames and coordinates for vector bundles and vector bundle connections is systematically introduced. The book contains several physical applications, which are based on a connection between the physical notion ``inertial system and the mathematical notion ``normal frame as well as the notion of (an)holonomicity. The book also contains an author, a notational and a subject index. It is eminently suitable for mathematicians and physicists who need some information about normal/inertial frames and coordinates.

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