Elie Cartan (1869-1951)

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     Translations of Mathematical Monographs 123

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     Elie Cartan (1869-1951)

     Copyright (C) 1993 by the American Mathematical Society.
          ISBN 0-8218-4587-X
          ISBN  978-0-8218-4587-5
          QA29.C355A6613 1993  16.3\'76\' 092-dc20
          LCCN 93-6932 CIP

     Contents

     Preface

CHAPTER1  The Life and Work of E. Cartan
     §1.1. Parents\' home
     §1.2. Student at a school and a lycee
     §1.3. University student
     §1.4. Doctor of Science
     §1.5. Professor
     § 1.6. Academician
     § 1.7. The Cartan family
     The CARTAN FAMILY
     §1.8. Cartan and the mathematicians of the world

CHAPTER 2  Lie Groups and Algebras
     §2.1. Groups
     §2.2. Lie groups and Lie algebras
     §2.3. Killing\'s paper
     §2.4. Cartan\'s thesis
     §2.5. Roots of the classical simple Lie groups
     §2.6. Isomorphisms of complex simple Lie groups
     §2.7. Roots of exceptional complex simple Lie groups
     §2.8. The Cartan matrices
     §2.9. The Weyl groups
     §2.10. The Weyl affine groups
     §2.11. Associative and alternative algebras
     §2.12. Cartan\'s works on algebras
     §2.13. Linear representations of simple Lie groups
     §2.14. Real simple Lie groups
     §2.15. Isomorphisms of real simple Lie groups
     §2.16. Reductive and quasireductive Lie groups
     §2.17. Simple Chevalley groups
     §2.18. Quasigroups and loops

CHAPTER 3  Projective Spaces and Projective Metrics
     §3.1. Real spaces
     §3.2. Complex spaces
     §3.3. Quaternion spaces
     §3.4. Octave planes
     §3.5. Degenerate geometries
     §3.6. Equivalent geometries
     §3.7. Multidimensional generalizations of the Hesse transfer principle
     §3.8. Fundamental elements
     §3.9. The duality and triality principles
     §3.10. Spaces over algebras with zero divisors
     §3.11. Spaces over tensor products of algebras
     §3.12. Degenerate geometries over algebras
     §3.13. Finite geometries

CHAPTER 4  Lie Pseudogroups and Pfaffian Equations
     §4.1. Lie pseudogroups
     §4.2. The Kac-Moody algebras
     §4.3. Pfaflian equations
     §4.4. Completely integrable Pfaffian systems
     §4.5. Pfaffian systems in involution
     §4.6. The algebra of exterior forms
     §4.7. Application of the theory of systems in involution
     §4.8. Multiple integrals, integral invariants, and integral geometry
     §4.9. Differential forms and the Betti numbers
     §4.10. New methods in the theory of partial differential equations

CHAPTER 5  The Method of Moving Frames and Differential Geometry
     §5.1. Moving trihedra of Frenet and Darboux
     §5.2. Moving tetrahedra and pentaspheres of Demoulin
     §5.3. Cartan\'s moving frames
     §5.4. The derivational formulas
     §5.5. The structure equations
     §5.6. Applications of the method of moving frames
     §5.7. Some geometric examples
     §5.8. Multidimensional manifolds in Euclidean space
     §5.9. Minimal manifolds
     §5.10, \"Isotropic surfaces\"
     §5.11. Deformation and projective theory of multidimensional manifolds
     §5.12. Invariant normalization of manifolds
     §5.13. \"Pseudo-conformal geometry of hypersurfaces\"

CHAPTER 6  Riemannian Manifolds. Symmetric Spaces
     §6.1. Riemannian manifolds
     §6.2. Pseudo-Riemannian manifolds
     §6.3. Parallel displacement of vectors
     §6.4. Riemannian geometry in an orthogonal frame
     §6.5. The problem of embedding a Riemannian manifoldin to a Euclidean space
     §6.6. Riemannian manifolds satisfying \"the axiom of plane\"
     §6.7. Symmetric Riemannian spaces
     §6.8. Hermitian spaces as symmetric spaces
     §6.9. Elements of symmetry
     §6.10. The isotropy groups and orbits
     §6.11. Absolutes of symmetric spaces
     §6.12. Geometry of the Cartan subgroups
     §6.13. The Cartan submanifolds of symmetric spaces
     §6.14. Antipodal manifolds of symmetric spaces
     §6.15. Orthogonal systems of functions on symmetric spaces
     §6.16. Unitary representations of noncompact Lie groups
     §6.17. The topology of symmetric spaces
     §6.18. Homological algebra

CHAPTER 7  Generalized Spaces
     §7.1. \"Affine connections\" and Weyl\'s \"metric manifolds\"
     §7.2. Spaces with af\'ine connection
     §7.3. Spaces with a Euclidean, isotropic, and metric connection
     §7.4. Afllne connections in Lie groups and symmetric spaces with an af\'ine connection
     §7.5. Spaces with a projective connection
     §7.6. Spaces with a conformal connection
     §7.7. Spaces with a symplectic connection
     §7.8. The relativity theory and the unified field theory
     §7.9. Finsler spaces
     §7.10. Metric spaces based on the notion of area
     §7.11. Generalized spaces over algebras
     §7.12. The equivalence problem and G-structures
     §7.13. Multidimensional webs

Conclusion

Back Matter
     Dates of Cartan\'s Life and Activities
     List of Publications of 1lie Cartan

     APPENDIX A  Rapport sur les Travaux de M. Cartan
          Groupes continus et finis
          Groupes discontinus et finis
          Groupes continus et infinis
          Equations aux derivees partielles
          Conclusions

     APPENDIX B  Sur une degenerscence de la geometrie euclidienne
     APPENDIX C  Allocution de M. Elie Cartan
     APPENDIX D  The Influence of France in the Development of Mathematics

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