Algebraic Integrability of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems on Manifolds

This book is unique in providing a detailed exposition of modern Lie-algebraic theory of integrable nonlinear dynamic systems on manifolds and its applications to mathematical physics, classical mechanics and hydrodynamics. The authors have developed a canonical geometric approach based on differential geometric considerations and spectral theory, which offers solutions to many quantization procedure problems. Much of the material is devoted to treating integrable systems via the gradient-holonomic approach devised by the authors, which can be very effectively applied.
Audience: This volume is recommended for graduate-level students, researchers and mathematical physicists whose work involves differential geometry, ordinary differential equations, manifolds and cell complexes, topological groups and Lie groups.

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Noting that their research is not yet completed, Prykarpatsky (mathematics, U. of Mining and Metallurgy, Cracow, Poland and mechanics and mathematics, NAS, Lviv, Ukraine) and Mykytiuk (mechanics and mathematics, NAS and Lviv Polytechnic State U., Ukraine) describe some of the ideas of Lie algebra that underlie many of the comprehensive integrability theories of nonlinear dynamical systems on manifolds. For each case they analyze, they separate the basic algebraic essence responsible for the complete integrability and explore how it is also in some sense characteristic for all of them. They cover systems with homogeneous configuration spaces, geometric quantization, structures on manifolds, algebraic methods of quantum statistical mechanics and their applications, and algebraic and differential geometric aspects related to infinite-dimensional functional manifolds. They have not indexed their work. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)