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Over the course of his distinguished career, Claude Viterbo has made a number of groundbreaking contributions in the development of symplectic geometry/topology and Hamiltonian dynamics. The chapters in this volume – compiled on the occasion of his 60th birthday – are written by distinguished mathematicians and pay tribute to his many significant and lasting achievements. .

Symplectic geometry. --- Geometry, Differential. --- Differential geometry --- Geometry, Differential --- Geometria simplèctica --- Geometria diferencial --- Algebraic topology. --- Manifolds (Mathematics). --- Dynamical systems. --- Algebraic geometry. --- Differential Geometry. --- Algebraic Topology. --- Manifolds and Cell Complexes. --- Dynamical Systems. --- Algebraic Geometry. --- Algebraic geometry --- Geometry --- Dynamical systems --- Kinetics --- Mathematics --- Mechanics, Analytic --- Force and energy --- Mechanics --- Physics --- Statics --- Topology

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The discoveries of the last decades have opened new perspectives for the old field of Hamiltonian systems and led to the creation of a new field: symplectic topology. Surprising rigidity phenomena demonstrate that the nature of symplectic mappings is very different from that of volume preserving mappings. This raises new questions, many of them still unanswered. On the other hand, analysis of an old variational principle in classical mechanics has established global periodic phenomena in Hamiltonian systems. As it turns out, these seemingly different phenomena are mysteriously related. One of the links is a class of symplectic invariants, called symplectic capacities. These invariants are the main theme of this book, which includes such topics as basic symplectic geometry, symplectic capacities and rigidity, periodic orbits for Hamiltonian systems and the action principle, a bi-invariant metric on the symplectic diffeomorphism group and its geometry, symplectic fixed point theory, the Arnold conjectures and first order elliptic systems, and finally a survey on Floer homology and symplectic homology. The exposition is self-contained and addressed to researchers and students from the graduate level onwards.   ------   All the chapters have a nice introduction with the historic development of the subject and with a perfect description of the state of the art. The main ideas are brightly exposed throughout the book. (…) This book, written by two experienced researchers, will certainly fill in a gap in the theory of symplectic topology. The authors have taken part in the development of such a theory by themselves or by their collaboration with other outstanding people in the area. (Zentralblatt MATH)   This book is a beautiful introduction to one outlook on the exciting new developments of the last ten to fifteen years in symplectic geometry, or symplectic topology, as certain aspects of the subject are lately called. (…) The authors are obvious masters of the field, and their reflections here and there throughout the book on the ambient literature and open problems are perhaps the most interesting parts of the volume. (Matematica).

Hamiltonian systems. --- Geometry, Differential. --- Symplectic manifolds. --- Manifolds, Symplectic --- Differential geometry --- Hamiltonian dynamical systems --- Systems, Hamiltonian --- Mathematics. --- Mathematical analysis. --- Analysis (Mathematics). --- Differential geometry. --- Manifolds (Mathematics). --- Complex manifolds. --- Differential Geometry. --- Manifolds and Cell Complexes (incl. Diff.Topology). --- Analysis. --- Geometry, Differential --- Manifolds (Mathematics) --- Differentiable dynamical systems --- Global differential geometry. --- Cell aggregation --- Global analysis (Mathematics). --- Analysis, Global (Mathematics) --- Differential topology --- Functions of complex variables --- Geometry, Algebraic --- Aggregation, Cell --- Cell patterning --- Cell interaction --- Microbial aggregation --- 517.1 Mathematical analysis --- Mathematical analysis --- Topology --- Analytic spaces

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The discoveries of the last decades have opened new perspectives for the old field of Hamiltonian systems and led to the creation of a new field: symplectic topology. Surprising rigidity phenomena demonstrate that the nature of symplectic mappings is very different from that of volume preserving mappings. This raises new questions, many of them still unanswered. On the other hand, analysis of an old variational principle in classical mechanics has established global periodic phenomena in Hamiltonian systems. As it turns out, these seemingly different phenomena are mysteriously related. One of the links is a class of symplectic invariants, called symplectic capacities. These invariants are the main theme of this book, which includes such topics as basic symplectic geometry, symplectic capacities and rigidity, periodic orbits for Hamiltonian systems and the action principle, a bi-invariant metric on the symplectic diffeomorphism group and its geometry, symplectic fixed point theory, the Arnold conjectures and first order elliptic systems, and finally a survey on Floer homology and symplectic homology. The exposition is self-contained and addressed to researchers and students from the graduate level onwards.   ------   All the chapters have a nice introduction with the historic development of the subject and with a perfect description of the state of the art. The main ideas are brightly exposed throughout the book. ( ¦) This book, written by two experienced researchers, will certainly fill in a gap in the theory of symplectic topology. The authors have taken part in the development of such a theory by themselves or by their collaboration with other outstanding people in the area. (Zentralblatt MATH)   This book is a beautiful introduction to one outlook on the exciting new developments of the last ten to fifteen years in symplectic geometry, or symplectic topology, as certain aspects of the subject are lately called. ( ¦) The authors are obvious masters of the field, and their reflections here and there throughout the book on the ambient literature and open problems are perhaps the most interesting parts of the volume. (Matematica)

Differential geometry. Global analysis --- Differential topology --- Mathematical analysis --- analyse (wiskunde) --- differentiaal geometrie --- topologie --- Hamiltonian systems --- Geometry, Differential --- Symplectic manifolds --- Systèmes hamiltoniens --- Géométrie différentielle --- Variétés symplectiques --- EPUB-LIV-FT LIVMATHE LIVSTATI SPRINGER-B