Geometry and Physics: XVI International Fall Workshop Lisbon, Portugal 5-8 September 2007

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ISBN: 9780735405462 | 0735405468
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Copyright: 7/3/2008

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All papers have been peer-reviewed. The XVI International Fall Workshop on Geometry and Physics brought together geometers and physicists from within and outside the Iberian peninsula, to exchange ideas on how to describe and understand a variety of phenomena in areas such as mechanics or gravity.

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Minicourses
Quantum Geometry and Quantum Gravity	p. 3
4-Manifolds with a Symplectic Bias	p. 34
Invited Talks
Some Geometrical Aspects of M-Theory	p. 57
The Modular Class of a Twisted Jacobi Algebroid	p. 71
On Non-Formality of a Simply-Connected Symplectic 8-Manifold	p. 82
The Principle of General Tovariance	p. 93
On the Failure of Ellipticity for Compressible Isotropic Nonlinearly Elastic Materials	p. 103
Introduction to Quantum Mechanics	p. 107
Contributed Talks
Twistorial Constructions of Special Riemannian Manifolds	p. 121
Optimal Control Problems for Affine Connection Control Systems: Characterization of Extremals	p. 127
A Note on 3-Quasi-Sasakian Geometry	p. 132
Flat Deformations of a Semi-Riemannian Metric Admitting a Symmetry Group	p. 138
Canonical Functional Quantization of Pseudo-Photons in Planar Systems	p. 143
Nilpotent Orbits in Simple Lie Algebras and their Transverse Poisson Structures	p. 148
Uniqueness of the Maximal Helicoid	p. 153
A Note on the Moduli Space of Polygons	p. 158
Posters
A Generalization of Warped Product Manifolds with Spin(7) Holonomy	p. 165
Functionally Graded Media	p. 172
A Momentum-Energy Integrator for Nonholonomic Dynamics	p. 177
Sequences of Knots and Their Limits	p. 183
Vakonomic Mechanics on Lie Affgebroids	p. 187
One Loop Superstring Effective Actions and d = 4 Supergravity	p. 192
Symmetries in k-Symplectic Field Theories	p. 197
Geometrical Structures of Space-Time in General Relativity	p. 202
Author Index	p. 215
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