Spinors and Calibrations

Download or read book Spinors and Calibrations written by F. Reese Harvey and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 1990-04-25 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Progress in mathematics is based on a thorough understanding of the mathematical objects under consideration, and yet many textbooks and monographs proceed to discuss general statements and assume that the reader can and will provide the mathematical infrastructure of examples and counterexamples. This book makes a deliberate effort to correct this situation: it is a collection of examples. The following table of contents describes its breadth and reveals the underlying motivation--differential geometry--in its many facets: Riemannian, symplectic, K*adahler, hyperK*adahler, as well as complex and quaternionic.