Web Theory And Related Topics

Download or read book Web Theory And Related Topics written by Joseph Grifone and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2001-04-30 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an overview of recent developments in web theory. Webs (i.e. families of foliations in general position) appear in many different fields of mathematics (differential geometry, algebraic geometry, differential equations, symplectic geometry, etc.) and physics (mechanics, geometrical optics, etc.). After giving a survey on webs in differential geometry and algebraic geometry, the book presents new results on partial differential equations, integrable systems, holomorphic dynamics and nonlinear optics obtained through web theory.