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The geometry of geodesics 测地线的几何

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The geometry of geodesics 测地线的几何

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作 者:HerbertBusemann 著

出 版 社:Oversea Publishing House

出版时间:2005-5-1

I S B N:9780486442372

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A comprehensive approach to qualitative problems in intrinsic differential geometry, this text for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students emphasizes cases in which geodesics possess only local uniqueness properties--and consequently, the relations to the foundations of geometry are decidedly less relevant, and Finsler spaces become the principal subject.
This direct approach has produced many new results and has materially generalized many known phenomena. Author Herbert Busemann begins with an explanation of the basic concepts, including compact metric spaces, convergence of point sets, motion and isometry, segments, and geodesics. Subsequent topics include Desarguesian spaces, with discussions of Riemann and Finsler spaces and Beltrami's theorem; perpendiculars and parallels, with examinations of higher-dimensional Minkowskian geometry and the Minkowski plane; and covering spaces, including locally isometric space, the universal covering space, fundamental sets, free homotopy and closed geodesics, and transitive geodesics on surfaces of higher genus. Concluding chapters explore the influence of the sign of the curvature on the geodesics, and homogenous spaces, including those
with flat bisectors.
Dover (2005) unabridged republication of the edition published by Academic Press, Inc., New York, 1955. Preface. Appendix. Notes to the Text. Index. 66 figures, x+422pp. 5 3/8×8 1/2. Paperbound.

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Preface
CHAPTER I. THE BASIC CONCEPTS
1. Introduction
2. Compact and finitely compact metric spaces
3. Convergence of point sets
4. Motion and isometry
5. Curves and their lengths
6. Segments
7. Geodesics
8. G-spaces
9. Multiplicity. Geodesics without multiple points
10. Two-dimensional G-spaces
11. Plane metrics without conjugate points
CHAPTER II. DESAEGUESIAN SPACES
 12. Introduction
 13. Planes with the Desargues property
 14. Spaces which contain planes
 15. Fdemann and Finsler spaces. Beltrami's theorem
 16. Convex sets in affine space
 17. Minkowskian geometry
 18. Hilbert's geometry
CHAPTER III. PERPENDICULARS AND PARALLELS
 19. Introduction
 20. Convexity of spheres and perpendicularity
 21. Characterization of the higher-dimensional elliptic geometry
 22. Limit spheres and co-rays in G-spaces
 23. Asymptotes and parallels in straight spaces
 24. Characterizations of the higher-dimensional Minkowskian geometry
 25. Characterization of the Minkowski plane
CHAPTER IV. COVERING SPACES
 26. Introduction
 27. Locally isometric spaces
 28. The universal covering space
 29. Fundamental sets
 30. Locally Minkowskian, hyperbohc, or spherical spaces
 31. Spaces in which two points determine a geodesic
 32. Free homotopy and closed geodesics
 33. Metrics without conjugate points on the torus .
 34. Transitive geodesics on surfaces of higher genus
CHAPTER V. THE INFLUENCE OF THE SIGH OF THE CURVATURE ON THE GEODESICS
35. Introduction
36. Local properties
37. Non-positive curvature mtne theory ot parallels
38. Straightness of the universal covering space
39. The. fundamental groups of spaces with convex capsules
40. Geodesics in spaces with negative curvature
41. Relation to non-positive curvature in standard sense
42. Angular measure
43. Excess and characteristic
44. Simple monogons, total excess, surfaces with positive excess
CHAPTER VI. HOMOGENEOUS SPACES
 45. Introduction
 46. Spaces with flat bisectors I
 47. Spaces with fiat bisectors II
 48. Applications of the bisector theorem. The Helmholtz-Lie Problem
 49. Involutoric motions
 50. New characterizations of the Minkowskian spaces
 51. Translations along two lines
 52. Surfaces with transitive groups of motions
 53. The hermitian elliptic and similar spaces
 54. Compact spaces with pairwise transitive groups of motions
 55. Odd-dimensional spaces with pairwise transitive groups of motions
APPENDIX Problems and Theorems
NOTES TO THE TEXT
INDEX

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