The central theme of this book is the theorem of Ambrose and Singer, which gives for a connected, complete and simply connected Riemannian manifold a necessary and sufficient condition for it to be homogeneous. This is a local condition which has to be satisfied at all points, and in this way it is...

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1. Verfasser:	Tricerri, F. (Franco), 1947-
Weitere Verfasser:	Vanhecke, L.
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1983.
Schriftenreihe:	London Mathematical Society lecture note series ; 83.
Schlagworte:	Riemannian manifolds. Variétés de Riemann. MATHEMATICS > Topology. Riemannian manifolds Differenzierbare Mannigfaltigkeit Riemannscher Raum Riemann, Variétés de.
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Zusammenfassung:	The central theme of this book is the theorem of Ambrose and Singer, which gives for a connected, complete and simply connected Riemannian manifold a necessary and sufficient condition for it to be homogeneous. This is a local condition which has to be satisfied at all points, and in this way it is a generalization of E. Cartan's method for symmetric spaces. The main aim of the authors is to use this theorem and representation theory to give a classification of homogeneous Riemannian structures on a manifold. There are eight classes, and some of these are discussed in detail. Using the constructive proof of Ambrose and Singer many examples are discussed with special attention to the natural correspondence between the homogeneous structure and the groups acting transitively and effectively as isometrics on the manifold.
Beschreibung:	1 online resource (v, 125 pages)
Bibliographie:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 120-123) and index.
ISBN:	9781107087309 1107087309 9781107325531 1107325536 1299706843 9781299706842