Outer
symmetry of space–time, 259
vector, 127
P
Paley–Wiener theorem, 38
Paracompact space, 34
Parallel
section, 231
tensor field, 237
transport, 220, 231
Parametrized curve, 60
Partition of unity, 34
Pathwise connected, 42
component, 41
Period, 134
Pfaffian equation system, 80
Phase space, 83, 113
Physics of vibrations, 21
Poincaré invariant, 114
Poincaré’s duality, 145
Point of closure, 12
Poisson bracket, 84
Polarization, 272
Polyhedron, 141
Pontrjagin class, 274
Positive definite rank 2 tensor, 300
Principal
curvature, 323
fiber bundle, 206
Product
Exterior, 70, 102
Lie, 68
manifold, 60
Semi-direct, 197
Tensor, 20, 97, 99
topology, 13
Proper time, 327, 329
Pseudo-group, 56
Pseudo-Riemannian
geometry, 154, 308
Pseudo-tensor, 121
Pseudo-tensorial r-form, 222
Pull back, 72
Pure gauge potential, 262
Push forward, 71,
72
Q
Quantum Hall effect, 289–292
Quantum states, 22
Quaternions, 200
Quotient
space, 16
topology, 39
R
Raising and lowering of tensor indices, 303
Rapidly decaying functions, 37
Reduced fiber bundle, 209
Reducible, 209
Reduction of the structure group, 209
Reduction theorem, 225
Reflexive space, 19
Regular
n-simplex, 127
domain, 127
embedding, 76
topological space, 32
F-related tangent vector fields, 78
Relative
homology, 151
topology, 12
Relatively compact, 30
Representation, 177
regular, 209
Ricci tensor, 332
Riemannian
connection, 308
geometry, 308
manifold, 300
Generalized, 300
Homogeneous, 306
metric, 301
Indefinite, 301
structure, 308
surface, 337
vector bundle, 308
Rigid body, 307
S
Saddle point, 149
Schauder’s fixed point theorem, 30
Schwarz inequality, 19
Second countable, 13
Section, 210, 227
Global, 210
Local, 210, 227
Canonical, 216
parallel, 231
Sectional curvature,
322
Semi-direct product, 197
Seminorm, 17
Separable, 12, 16
Sesquilinear function, 19
Compendium 387