Preface |
Introduction / I: |
Gaussian optics / 1: |
Hamilton's method in Gaussian optics / 2: |
Fermat's principle / 3: |
From Gaussian optics to linear optics / 4: |
Geometrical optics, Hamilton's method, and the theory of geometrical aberrations / 5: |
Fermat's principle and Hamilton's principle / 6: |
Interference and diffraction / 7: |
Gaussian integrals / 8: |
Examples in Fresnel optics / 9: |
The phase factor / 10: |
Fresnel's formula / 11: |
Fresnel optics and quantum mechanics / 12: |
Holography / 13: |
Poisson brackets / 14: |
The Heisenberg group and representation / 15: |
The Groenwald-van Hove theorem / 16: |
Other quantizations / 17: |
Polarization of light / 18: |
The coadjoint orbit of a semidirect product / 19: |
Electromagnetism and the determination of symplectic structures / 20: |
Epilogue: Why symplectic geometry? |
The geometry of the moment map / II: |
Normal forms / 21: |
The Darboux-Weinstein theorem / 22: |
Kaehler manifolds / 23: |
Left-invariant forms and Lie algebra cohomology / 24: |
Symplectic group actions / 25: |
The moment map and some of its properties / 26: |
Group actions and foliations / 27: |
Collective motion / 28: |
Cotangent bundles and the moment map for semidirect products / 29: |
More Euler-Poisson equations / 30: |
The choice of a collective Hamiltonian / 31: |
Convexity properties of toral group actions / 32: |
The lemma of stationary phase / 33: |
Geometric quantization / 34: |
Motion in a Yang-Mills field and the principle of general covariance / III: |
The equations of motion of a classical particle in a Yang-Mills field / 35: |
Curvature / 36: |
The energy-momentum tensor and the current / 37: |
The principle of general covariance / 38: |
Isotropic and coisotropic embeddings / 39: |
Symplectic induction / 40: |
Symplectic slices and moment reconstruction / 41: |
An alternative approach to the equations of motion / 42: |
The moment map and kinetic theory / 43: |
Complete integrability / IV: |
Fibrations by tori / 44: |
Collective complete integrability / 45: |
Collective action variables / 46: |
The Kostant-Symes lemma and some of its variants / 47: |
Systems of Calogero type / 48: |
Solitons and coadjoint structures / 49: |
The algebra of formal pseudodifferential operators / 50: |
The higher-order calculus of variations in one variable / 51: |
Contractions of symplectic homogeneous spaces / V: |
The Whitehead lemmas / 52: |
The Hochschild-Serre spectral sequence / 53: |
Galilean and Poincare elementary particles / 54: |
Coppersmith's theory / 55: |
References |
Index |