Doubly timelike surfaces / by John K. Beem and Peter Y. Woo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beem, John Kelly, author.

Woo, Peter Y., author.

Series:

Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society ; no. 92.

Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society ; number 92

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metric spaces.

Topology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (121 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Providence : American Mathematical Society, 1969.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

""CONTENTS""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""CHAPTER I: GENERAL G-SPACES""; ""1. Timelike Metrics""; ""2. General G-Spaces""; ""3. Two Dimensional Spaces""; ""4. Covering Spaces""; ""5. Motions""; ""6. Example. Exterior Hyperbolic Geometry""; ""CHAPTER II: MINKOWSKI SPACES""; ""1. Preliminary Results""; ""2. Isometries of Minkowski Spaces""; ""3. Perpendicularity""; ""4. Pairwise Transitive Mobility""; ""CHAPTER III: DOUBLY TIMELIKE SURFACES""; ""1. Null Boxes""; ""2. Translations""; ""3. Zero Curvature""; ""4. Curves and Arclength""; ""5. Convex Curves""; ""6. Differentiability""

""CHAPTER IV: PLANES AND PATH-UNIQUE SPACES""""1. Doubly Timelike Planes""; ""2. Path-Unique Doubly Timelike Surfaces""; ""CHAPTER V: STRAIGHT PLANES""; ""1. The Grid-Representation of a Straight Plane""; ""2. Perpendiculars and Asymptotes in a Straight Plane""; ""3. Limit Circles in a Straight Plane""; ""4. Parallels in a Straight Plane""; ""CHAPTER VI: FLAT BISECTORS""; ""1. Bisectors with Flat Subsets""; ""2. Angles""; ""3. Lambert Quadrangles""; ""4. Equidistant Curves""; ""5. The Pythagorean Theorem""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Bibliography: pages 114-115.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4704-0042-1