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ContentsPrefaceGlossary of Frequently Used Symbolsviixi1. Introduction 11.1 Manifolds and Related <strong>Geom</strong>etrical Structures . . . . . . 11.1.1 <strong>Geom</strong>etrical Atlas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.1.2 Topological Manifolds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81.1.2.1 Topological manifolds withoutboundary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101.1.2.2 Topological manifolds with boundary . 101.1.2.3 Properties of topological manifolds . . . 101.1.3 <strong>Diff</strong>erentiable Manifolds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121.1.4 Tangent and Cotangent Bundles of Manifolds . . 141.1.4.1 Tangent Bundle of a Smooth Manifold . 141.1.4.2 Cotangent Bundle of a SmoothManifold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151.1.4.3 Fibre–, Tensor–, and Jet–Bundles . . . 151.1.5 Riemannian Manifolds: Configuration Spacesfor Lagrangian Mechanics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161.1.5.1 Riemann Surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . 171.1.5.2 Riemannian <strong>Geom</strong>etry . . . . . . . . . . 191.1.5.3 Application: Lagrangian Mechanics . 221.1.5.4 Finsler manifolds . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251.1.6 Symplectic Manifolds: Phase–Spaces forHamiltonian Mechanics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25xvii

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