XIX International Fall Workshop on Geometry and Physics: Porto, Portugal, 6-9 September 2010

by Herdeiro, Carlos; Picken, Roger

• ISBN13: 9780735409187
• ISBN10: 0735409188
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-07-20
• Publisher: Amer Inst of Physics

Summary

The aim of this series of meetings is to provide a context for exchanging ideas among researchers of different fields in Differential Geometry, Applied Mathematics and Physics; in general, among all people interested in the application of geometric methods and techniques to the study of physical problems.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 1
Committees and Sponsors	p. 3
Minicourses
Lectures on the geometry of quantum mechanics	p. 7
Invited Talks
HKT structures from almost contact manifolds	p. 27
Higgs bundles and the real symplectic group	p. 39
Homogeneous spaces, multi-moment maps and (2,3)-trivial algebras	p. 51
Symmetric criticality in classical field theory	p. 63
Contributed Talks
Gwistor spaces	p. 77
Construction of isospectral manifolds	p. 82
Non-linear electrostatic waves in Born-Infeld plasmas	p. 87
Cohomogeneity one Ricci solitons	p. 93
A note on Legendre foliations	p. 99
Variational Lie derivative and cohomology classes	p. 106
Abelian complex structures on 2-step nilmanifolds and flat connections	p. 113
Posters
Some generalizations of locally symmetric spaces	p. 121
Superposition rules and second-order differential equations	p. 127
Second Stiefel-Whitney class and spin structures on flat manifolds of diagonal type	p. 133
Lagrangians and Euler morphisms from connections on the frame bundle	p. 139
New regular black hole solutions	p. 145
Structure of diffeomorphism-invariant Lagrangians on the product bundle of metrics and linear connections	p. 151
Examples of naturally reductive pseudo Riemannian Lie groups	p. 157
Mechanical systems with nonholonomic constraints of the second order	p. 164
List of Participants	p. 171
Group Photo	p. 173
Author Index	p. 175
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