Sasakian geometry

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This volume offers an extensive modern treatment of Sasakian geometry, which is of importance in many different fields in geometry and physics.

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Full title :Sasakian geometry / Charles P. Boyer and Krzysztof Galicki.

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This volume offers an extensive modern treatment of Sasakian geometry, which is of importance in many different fields in geometry and physics.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2008.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2008.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xi, 613 pages) : : illustrations

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ISBN:9780191713712, 0191713716
oclc:ocn654722256
LC Classification:QA649
Dewey Decimal:516.3/73

Structures on manifolds -- Foliations -- Kähler manifolds -- Fundamentals of orbifolds -- Kähler-Einstein metrics -- Almost contact and contact geometry -- K-contact and Sasakian structures -- Symmetries and Sasakian structures -- Links as Sasakian manifolds -- Sasakian geometry in dimensions 3 and 5 -- Sasaki-Einstein geometry -- Quaternionic Kähler and Hyperkähler manifolds -- 3-Sasakian manifolds -- Sasakian structures, killing spinors, and supersymmetry.