Finsler Geometry: Joint Summer Research Conference on Finsler Geometry, July 16-20, 1995, Seattle, Washington (Contemporary Mathematics) - Softcover

Bao, David Dai-Wai; Chern, Shiing-Shen; Shen, Zhongmin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 082180507X ISBN 13: 9780821805077

Publisher: Amer Mathematical Society, 1996

Synopsis

This volume features proceedings from the 1995 Joint Summer Research Conference on Finsler Geometry (Seattle, WA), chaired by S.S. Chern and co-chaired by D. Bao and Z. Shen.

The editors of this volume have provided comprehensive and informative "capsules" of presentations and technical reports. This was facilitated by classifying the papers into the following 6 separate sections---3 of which are applied and 3 are pure:

Finsler Geometry over the reals

Complex Finsler geometry

Generalized Finsler metrics

Applications to biology, engineering, and physics

Applications to control theory

Applications to relativistic field theory

Each section contains a preface that provides a coherent overview of the topic and includes an outline of the current directions of research and new perspectives. A short list of open problems concludes each contributed paper.

A number of photos are featured in the volume, for example, that of Finsler. In addition, conference participants are also highlighted.

Edition details

• Publisher: Amer Mathematical Society
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 082180507X
• ISBN 13: 9780821805077
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 310