Description
Book SynopsisThis is both a textbook and a monograph. It is partially based on a two-semester course, held by the author for third-year students in physics and mathematics at the University of Salerno, on analytical mechanics, differential geometry, symplectic manifolds and integrable systems.As a textbook, it provides a systematic and self-consistent formulation of Hamiltonian dynamics both in a rigorous coordinate language and in the modern language of differential geometry. It also presents powerful mathematical methods of theoretical physics, especially in gauge theories and general relativity.As a monograph, the book deals with the advanced research topic of completely integrable dynamics, with both finitely and infinitely many degrees of freedom, including geometrical structures of solitonic wave equations.
Table of ContentsPart 1 Analytical mechanics: the Lagrangian coordinates; Hamiltonian systems; transformation theory; the integration methods. Part 2 Basic ideas of differential geometry: manifolds and tangent spaces; differential forms; integration theory; Lie groups and Lie algebras. Part 3 Geometry and physics: symplectic manifolds and Hamiltonian systems; the orbits method; classical electrodynamics. Part 4 Integrable field theories: "KdV" equation; general structures; meaning and existence of recursion operators; miscellanea; integrability of fermionic dynamics.
