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Applied Exterior Calculus

By: Dominic G. B. Edelen

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This text begins with the essentials, advancing to applications and studies of physical disciplines, including classical and irreversible thermodynamics, electrodynamics, and the theory of gauge fields. Geared toward advanced undergraduates and graduate students, it develops most of the theory and requires only a familiarity with upper-division algebra and mathematical analysis. "Essential." — SciTech Book News. 1985 edition.

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Courier Corporation

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0486438716

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9780486438719

Transformation Methods for Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations

By: Dominic G. B. Edelen,Jian-hua Wang

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Transformation Methods for Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations

By: Dominic G. B. Edelen,Jian-hua Wang

The purpose of the book is to provide research workers in applied mathematics, physics, and engineering with practical geometric methods for solving systems of nonlinear partial differential equations. The first two chapters provide an introduction to the more or less classical results of Lie dealing with symmetries and similarity solutions. The results, however, are presented in the context of contact manifolds rather than the usual jet bundle formulation and provide a number of new conclusions. The remaining three chapters present essentially new methods of solution that are based on recent publications of the authors'. The text contains numerous fully worked examples so that the reader can fully appreciate the power and scope of the new methods. In effect, the problem of solving systems of nonlinear partial differential equations is reduced to the problem of solving families of autonomous ordinary differential equations. This allows the graphs of solutions of the system of partial differential equations to be realized as certain leaves of a foliation of an appropriately defined contact manifold. In fact, it is often possible to obtain families of solutions whose graphs foliate an open subset of the contact manifold. These ideas are extended in the final chapter by developing the theory of transformations that map a foliation of a contact manifold onto a foliation. This analysis gives rise to results of surprising depth and practical significance. In particular, an extended Hamilton-Jacobi method for solving systems of partial differential equations is obtained.

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World Scientific

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9810209339

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Relativity and the Question of Discretization in Astronomy

By: Dominic G.B. Edelen,A.G. Wilson

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Relativity and the Question of Discretization in Astronomy

By: Dominic G.B. Edelen,A.G. Wilson

Theoretical researches in general relativity and observational data from galactic astronomy combine in this volume in contributions to one of the oldest questions of natural philosophy: Is the structure of the physical world more adequately described by a continuous or a discrete mode of representation? Since the days of the Pythagoreans, this question has surfaced from time to time in various guises in science as well as in philosophy. One of the most bitterly contested and illuminating controversies between the continuous and the discrete viewpoints is to be found in the wave versus corpuscular description of optical phenom enae. This controversy was not resolved to the satisfaction of most of its protaganists until the development of the quantum theory. However, several obscurities that still becloud the question suggest that some deeper formulation may be necessary before more satisfactory answers can be given 1. The firm establishment of the validity of quantized structure and discrete energy distributions on the atomic scale following the ideas of Max Planck, together with the apparent absence of quan tization effect in astronomical and cosmic structures leaves uncertainties concerning the role played by the scale of the observer in perceiving or not perceiving discrete distributions. Some of the metaphysical inter pretations and implications of the quantum mechanics that have been made in recent years 2 would be subject to revision if the existence of discretized descriptions were to be established in astronomical and cosmic structures.

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