looking for a book on banach manifolds

2011-11-13T15:13:16Z

Hi,

I am looking for a book on Banach manifolds. Can somebody recommend me something. Thanks in advance.

leo

Answer by Jonny Evans for looking for a book on banach manifolds

2011-11-13T17:24:36Z

Palais, "The Foundations of Global Non-linear Analysis" (or his survey article "Homotopy theory of infinite-dimensional manifolds": http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0040938366900024) are handy to have at hand.

EDIT: Also this paper of Eliasson might be useful: "Geometry of manifolds of maps" (1967) Journal of Differential Geometry (available at http://www.intlpress.com/JDG/archive/1967/1-1&2-169.pdf).

Of course, it's always best to see these things in action rather than in the abstract. If you know some differential geometry I can recommend Donaldson & Kronheimer "Geometry of 4-manifolds" (though much of what they do takes place in an affine Hilbert manifold, the lack of generality doesn't make the nonlinear theory significantly easier!) or McDuff & Salamon "J-holomorphic curves and symplectic topology" where they really have used Banach manifolds (for example their universal moduli spaces of pseudoholomorphic curves) and there is a lot of detail on the analysis. Another interesting setting in which infinite-dimensional analysis comes to life is the Ebin-Marsden Annals paper "Groups of diffeomorphisms and the motion of an incompressible fluid" (http://www.jstor.org/pss/1970699) where they do some Riemannian geometry (again in the Hilbert setting, I think).

Answer by André Henriques for looking for a book on banach manifolds

2011-11-21T10:31:42Z

I recommend

Serge Lang. Diﬀerential manifolds. Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., Reading, Mass.-London- Don Mills, Ont., 1972.

Serge Lang is an excellend writer.

Answer by Jeff Strom for looking for a book on banach manifolds

2011-11-21T16:17:03Z

I happen to know this

Abraham, Ralph; Robbin, Joel Transversal mappings and flows. An appendix by Al Kelley W. A. Benjamin, Inc., New York-Amsterdam 1967 x+161 pp.

exists.

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