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Author Hitchin, N. J. (Nigel J.), 1946-

Title Integrable systems : twistors, loop groups, and Riemann surfaces : based on lectures given at a conference on integrable systems organized by N.M.J. Woodhouse and held at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, in September 1997 / N.J. Hitchin, Savilian, professor of Geometry, University of Oxford, G.B. Segal, Lowndean, professor of Astronomy and Geometry, University of Cambridge, R.S. Ward, professor of Mathematics, University of Durham
Published Oxford : Clarendon Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource
Series Oxford graduate texts in mathematics ; 4
Oxford graduate texts in mathematics ; 4.
Contents Cover; Contents; List of contributors; 1 Introduction; Bibliography; 2 Riemann surfaces and integrable systems; 1 Riemann surfaces; 2 Line bundles and sheaves; 3 Vector bundles; 4 Direct images of line bundles; 5 Matrix polynomials and Lax pairs; 6 Completely integrable Hamiltonian systems; Bibliography; 3 Integrable systems and inverse scattering; 1 Solitons and the KdV equation; 2 Classical dynamical systems and integrability; 3 Some classical integrable systems; 4 Formal pseudo-differential operators; 5 Scattering theory; 6 The non-linear Schrodinger equation and its scattering
7 Families of flat connections and harmonic maps8 The KdV equation as an Euler equation; 9 Determinants and holonomy; 10 Local conservation laws; 11 The classical moment problem; 12 Inverse scattering; 13 Loop groups and the restricted Grassmannian; 14 Integrable systems and the restricted Grassmannian; 15 Algebraic curves and the Grassmannian; Bibliography; 4 Integrable Systems and Twisters; 1 General comments on integrable systems; 2 Some elementary geometry; 3 First example: self-dual Yang-Mills; 4 Twistor space and holomorphic vector bundles
5 Yang-Mills-Higgs solitons and minitwistor space6 Generalizations; Bibliography; Index; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z
Summary This textbook is designed to give graduate students an understanding of integrable systems via the study of Riemann surfaces, loop groups, and twistors. The book has its origins in a series of lecture courses given by the authors, all of whom are internationally known mathematicians and renowned expositors. It is written in an accessible and informal style, and fills a gap in the existing literature. The introduction by Nigel Hitchin addresses the meaning of integrability: how do werecognize an integrable system? His own contribution then develops connections with algebraic geometry, and inclu
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Hamiltonian systems.
Twistor theory.
Loops (Group theory)
Riemann surfaces.
MATHEMATICS -- Topology.
Hamiltonian systems
Loops (Group theory)
Riemann surfaces
Twistor theory
Form Electronic book
Author Segal, Graeme.
Ward, R. S. (Richard Samuel), 1951-
ISBN 9780191664458
0191664456