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1298 <strong>Applied</strong> <strong>Diff</strong>erential <strong>Geom</strong>etry: A Modern Introductionconstrained Hamiltonian equations,901contact form, 880contact forms, 804contact manifold, 27, 880, 882contact map, 803contact transformation, 879contraction, 178, 670contravariant acceleration functor,385control affine system, 538control vector–fields, 537controlled trajectory, 538controlled Van der Pol oscillator, 543coordinate 1−forms, 175coordinate ball, 145coordinate chart, 145coordinate domain, 145coordinate map, 145coproduct, 463correlation functions, 1118correspondence principle, 991cosmology, 974cotangent bundle, 25, 153cotangent space, 15, 153counit, 463coupling constant, 43coupling form, 626, 638covariant derivative, 467, 810covariant differential, 810, 838covariant differentiation, 273covariant force functor, 49, 384, 573,1097covariant force law, 76, 77, 384, 573,1097covariant forces, 290covariant formalism on smoothmanifolds, 46covariant Hamiltonian, 900covariant Hamiltonian equations, 900cover, 2covering space, 487covertical connection, 809Coxeter graph, 243Coxeter number, 525Coxeter–Dynkin diagram, 243critical point, 312cross–section, 150cumulative distribution function, 985current conservation, 35curvature, 5curvature form, 512curvature of a connection, 811curvature operator, 278curvature–free connection, 812cuspy patterns, 1072CW–complex, 14D’Alambert–Lagrangian principle,535D–branes, 36, 41Darboux’s Theorem, 459de Rham cohomology, 435, 508, 513,636de Rham cohomology class, 336de Rham cohomology group, 182,187, 844de Rham complex, 185de Rham Theorem, 186, 187deformed Einstein–Hilbert action, 472defuzzification, 586degree of non–holonomicity, 534derivation, 163deterministic chaos, 391diffeomorphism, 7, 29, 39, 148, 429diffeomorphism invariance, 707differentiability, 13differentiable manifold, 6, 12differentiable manifolds, 8differential system, 534dilaton, 44dilaton field, 1147dimension, 9Dimension Axiom, 508Dirac condition, 623Dirac constraint systems, 837Dirac equation, 442, 761Dirac Hamiltonian, 1170Dirac matrices, 200Dirac operator, 305, 726, 758Dirac quantization, 526, 614Dirac quantization rule, 87

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