German Fedorovich Laptev, his unique method, achievements, and modern contribution. On the 100th anniversary of the birth of our teacher

DOI10.1007/S10958-010-0048-1MaRDI QIDQ548735zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Leonid Evgen'evich Evtushik

Publication date 30 June 2011

Published in Journal of Mathematical Sciences (New York) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s10958-010-0048-1

zbMATH Keywords

differential structuresGerman Fedorovich Laptevgroup-theoretic methodsLie group representation spacesLie group structural differential formssmooth manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70) History of differential geometry (53-03) General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Geometric structures on manifolds of high or arbitrary dimension (57N16)

Review text

This article is written on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Professor German Fedorovich Laptev, known as a creator of universal invariant group-theoretic methods for studying differential-geometric object fields in spaces of representations of all possible Lie groups and in submanifolds of these spaces on the basis of Lie group structural differential forms and Lie group representation spaces. After a brief biographical sketch, the author overviews the development of Laptev's ideas in recent work of his colleagues and former students focusing attention on differential-algebraic techniques for invariant description of higher-order geometric structures on smooth manifolds, geometry of reducible differential systems \(f^{p+1} :T^{p}\left( V_{n}\right) \rightarrow T^{p+1}\left( V_{n}\right) \) and invariant description of second-order Lagrangians of metric type.

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