From the contents:Preface.- Academic Genealogy of Alan Weinstein.- About Alan Weinstein.- Bursztyn/Crainic: Dirac structures, momentum maps, and quasi-Poisson manifolds.- Cahen/Gutt/Schwachhöfer: Construction of Ricci-type connections by reduction and induction.- Duistermaat: A mathematical model for geomagnetic reversals.- Ehlers/Koiller/Montgomery/Rios: Nonholonomic systems via moving frames: Cartan equivalence and Chaplygin Hamiltonization.- Evens/Lu: Thompson s conjecture for real semisimple Lie group.- Ginzburg: The Weinstein conjecture and theorems of nearby and almost existence.- Givental/Milanov: Simple singularities and integrable hierarchies.- Holm/Marsden: Mmentum maps and measure-valued solutions (peakons, filaments, andsheets) for the EPDiff equation.- Huebschmann: Higher homotopies and Maurer-Cartan algebras: Quasi-Lie-Rinehart, Gerstenhaber, and Batalin-Vilkovisky algebras.- Jeffrey/Kogan: Localization theorems by symplectic cuts.
EAN/ISBN : 9780817644192
Publisher(s): Springer, Berlin, Birkhäuser
Discussed keywords: Festschriften (Mathematik), Poisson-Geometrie, Symplektische Geometrie, Weinstein, Alan
Format: ePub/PDF

Author(s): Marsden, Jerrold E. - Ratiu, Tudor S.