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Published June 24, 1993 | public
Book Section - Chapter

Steve Smale and Geometric Mechanics

Abstract

Thus, one can say-perhaps with only a slight danger of oversimplification- that reduction theory synthesises the work of Smale, Arnold (and their predecesors of course) into a bundle, with Smale as the base and Arnold as the fiber. This bundle has interesting topology and carries mechanical connections (with associated Chern classes and Hannay-Berry phases) and has interesting singularities (Arms, Marsden, and Moncrief, Guillemin and Sternberg, Atiyab, and otbers). We will describe some of these features later.

Additional Information

© 1993 Springer-Verlag New York. Inc. Research partially supported by NSF Grant DMS-8922704 and DOE Contract DE-FG03·88ER2S064. Papers presented at an international research conference in honor of Stephen Smale's 60th birthday, held Aug. 5-9, 1990 in Berkeley.

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