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"Devoted to the geometry of multi-dimensional three-webs, this monograph presents the classical and more recent results of the theory, and those parts of geometry and algebra which are closely connected with it. Many problems of the theory of smooth quasigroups and loops are considered. In addition to the general theory of webs, important classes of special webs are also studied. The volume contains eight chapters dealing with h-geometric and algebraic structures associated with three-webs, transversally geodesic and isoclinic three-webs, Bol and Moufang three-webs, closed g-structures, automorphisms of three-webs, the geometry of the fourth-order differential neighborhood of a multidimensional three-web, and ""d""-webs of codimension ""r"". This volume should be of particular interest to graduate students and researchers working in the areas of differential and algebraic geometry and algebra."

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Author:   M. Akivis ,  A.M. Shelekhov ,  V. V. Goldberg
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   1992 ed.
Volume:   82
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.735kg
ISBN:  

9780792316848

ISBN 10:   0792316843
Pages:   358
Publication Date:   31 March 1992
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1 Three-Webs and Geometric Structures Associated with Them.- 1.1 G-Structures, Fibrations and Foliations.- 1.2 Three-Webs on Smooth Manifolds.- 1.3 Geometry of the Tangent Space of a Multidimensional Three-Web.- 1.4 Structure Equations of a Multidimensional Three-Web.- 1.5 Parallelizable and Group Three-Webs.- 1.6 Computation of the Torsion and Curvature Tensors of a Three-Web.- 1.7 The Canonical Chern Connection on a Three-Web.- 1.8 Other Connections Associated with a Three-Web.- 1.9 Subwebs of Multidimensional Three-Webs.- Problems.- Notes.- 2 Algebraic Structures Associated with Three-Webs.- 2.1 Quasigroups and Loops.- 2.2 Configurations in Abstract Three-Webs.- 2.3 Identities in Coordinate Loops and Closure Conditions.- 2.4 Local Differentiable Loops and Their Tangent Algebras.- 2.5 Tangent Algebras of a Multidimensional Three-Web.- 2.6 Canonical Coordinates in a Local Analytic Loop.- 2.7 Algebraic Properties of the Chern Connection.- Problems.- Notes.- 3 Transversally Geodesic and Isoclinic Three-Webs.- 3.1 Transversally Geodesic and Hexagonal Three-Webs.- 3.2 Isoclinic Three-Webs.- 3.3 Grassmann Three-Webs.- 3.4 An Almost Grassmann Structure Associated with a Three-Web. Problems of Grassmannization and Algebraization.- 3.5 Isoclinicly Geodesic Three-Webs. Three-Webs over Algebra.- Problems.- Notes.- 4 The Bol Three-Webs and the Moufang Three-Webs.- 4.1 The Bol Three-Webs.- 4.2 The Isoclinic Bol Three-Webs.- 4.3 The Six-Dimensional Bol Three-Webs.- 4.4 The Moufang Three-Webs.- 4.5 The Moufang Three-Web of Minimal Dimension.- Problems.- Notes.- 5 Closed G-Structures Associated with Three-Webs.- 5.1 Closed G-Structures on a Smooth Manifold.- 5.2 Closed G-Structures Defined by Multidimensional Three-Webs.- 5.3 Four-dimensional Hexagonal Three-Webs.- 5.4 The Closure ofThe G-Structure Defined by a Multidimensional Hexagonal Three-Web.- 5.5 Three-Webs and Identities in Loops.- Problems.- Notes.- 6 Automorphisms of Three-Webs.- 6.1 The Autotopies of Quasigroups and Three-Webs.- 6.2 Infinitesimal Automorphisms of Three-Webs.- 6.3 Regular Infinitesimal Automorphisms of Three-Webs.- 6.4 G-Webs.- Problems.- Notes.- 7 Geometry of the Fourth Order Differential Neighborhood of a Multidimensional Three-Web.- 7.1 Computation of Covariant Derivatives of the Curvature Tensor of a Three-Web.- 7.2 Internal Mappings in Coordinate Loops of a Three-Web.- 7.3 An Algebraic Characterization of the Tangent W4-Algebra of a Three-Web.- 7.4 Classification of Three-Webs in the Fourth Order Differential Neighborhood.- 7.5 Three-Webs with Elastic Coordinate Loop.- Problems.- Notes.- 8 d-Webs of Codimension r.- 8.1 (n + 1)-Webs on a Manifold of Dimension nr.- 8.2 (n + 1)-Webs on a Grassmann Manifold.- 8.3 (n + 1)-Webs and Almost Grassmann Structures.- 8.4 Transversally Geodesic and Isoclinic (n + 1)-Webs.- 8.5 d-Webs on a Manifold of Dimension nr.- 8.6 The Algebraization Problem for Multidimensional d-Webs.- 8.7 The Rank Problem for d-Webs.- Problems.- Notes.- Appendix A.- Symbols Frequently Used.

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'The book is warmly recommended to everyone doing research in the related fields.' Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung 97: 21 1993

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