Sumários
Cartan connection
4 dezembro 2012, 11:00 • José António Maciel Natário
Curvature. Cartan structure equations. Cartan connection.
Lorentz transformations
30 novembro 2012, 11:00 • José António Maciel Natário
Time orientation. Lorentz transformations and simple consequences: time dilation, relativity of simultaneity and length contraction.
Minkowski spacetime
27 novembro 2012, 11:00 • José António Maciel Natário
Inertial frames. Galileo spacetime. Minkowski spacetime.
Poisson reduction
23 novembro 2012, 11:00 • José António Maciel Natário
Poisson maps. Poisson actions and Hamiltonian actions. Noether's theorem. Poisson reduction.
Poisson manifolds
20 novembro 2012, 11:00 • José António Maciel Natário
Poisson manifolds: definition and examples. Hamiltonian vector fields, Casimir functions, Poisson bivector. Kirillov's theorem.