Handbook of Normal Frames and Coordinates

• Main Author: Iliev, Bozhidar Z. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel : Birkhäuser Basel, 2006.
• Series: Progress in Mathematical Physics ; 42
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Differential geometry.; Differential Geometry.

This book provides the first comprehensive and complete overview on results and methods concerning normal frames and coordinates in differential geometry, with emphasis on vector and differentiable bundles. The book can be used as a reference manual, for reviewing the existing results and as an intr...

Table of Contents:

• Manifolds, Normal Frames and Riemannian Coordinates
• Existence, Uniqueness and Construction of Normal Frames and Coordinates for Linear Connections
• Normal Frames and Coordinates for Derivations on Differentiable Manifolds
• Normal Frames in Vector Bundles
• Normal Frames for Connections on Differentiable Fibre Bundles.