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Atlas 2 for Maple is a powerful Maple toolbox for performing calculations in the general area of differential geometry: from formulating and solving 2D/3D problems to working with an N-dimensional manifold as a whole.
Atlas 2 allows you to concentrate on differential geometry problems, but not on the programming.
Atlas 2 uses standard differential geometry notations
which allow you to always get output as you expected.
Atlas 2D/3D Wizard - powerful GUI Add-On for Atlas package code generation.
Atlas 2D/3D Wizard - GUI Add-On
Atlas 2D/3D Wizard is a powerful GUI Add-On for Atlas package code generation
The Add-On generates Maple™ code to solve typical 2D and 3D differential geometry problems using Atlas:
- - calculation of curvature, torsion, tangent, principal normal and binormal vectors for plane and space curves in any coordinate system.
- - calculation of metric, second fundamental form, mean curvature vectors, Laplace operator, connection, curvature Riemann and Ricci tensor, Gauss curvature for any surface in any 3D coordinate system.
- - calculation of metric, connection, Laplace operator for any 2D and 3D coordinate system.
Just follow the Wizard steps, execute the generated Mathematica notebook and have your problem solved.
With the Add-On you can solve 2D and 3D differential geometry problems even with a little knowledge in differential geometry!
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I am a teacher who is enrolled at the University of Padua for a second degree in Mathematics. What struck me most in Atlas tool is simple and intuitive approach, taking into account that the subject is not easy. I would definitely recommend Atlas for those learning differential geometry using traditional textbooks and as an alternative way to expand topics you already know. I am absolutely satisfied!
Diego Zampiva, Math Teacher
Modern differential geometry
Modern differential geometry is the basis for the package. The entities such as manifolds, mappings, p-forms, tensor fields, bundles, connections are very important in the modern differential geometry. The package allows you to work with these entities without extra efforts. Define an entity with the corresponding obvious definition and work with it just as you usually do.
The following declarations are trivial and self explanatory:
- Domain - manifold and domain declaration
- Constants - constants declaration
- Functions - functions declaration
- Tensors - tensors declaration
- Forms - forms declaration
- Vectors - vectors declaration
- Mapping - declaration of a mapping between manifolds or domains
- Coframe - coframe declaration
- Frame - frame declaration
- Metric - metric tensor declaration
No programming just differential geometry
When working on your problem you think in terms of manifolds, mappings, embeddings, submersions, p-forms, tensor fields
etc.
The
package allows you to concentrate on differential geometry problems, but not on the programming.
You can use predefined declaration operators to declare various differential geometry objects, which are calculated on the fly:
- Projectors - automatic calculation of projectors of a mapping
- Invariants - automatic calculation of invariants of a mapping
- Connection - automatic calculation of connection 1-forms
- Curvature - automatic calculation of curvature 2-forms
- Torsion - automatic calculation of torsion 2-forms
- Riemann - automatic Riemann tensor calculation
- Ricci - automatic Ricci tensor calculation
- RicciScalar - automatic Ricci scalar calculation
No ugly output just standard notations
The
package uses standard differential geometry notations: d
- exterior derivative, 
- Lie derivative, ι
- interior product, 
- exterior product, 
- tensor product, 
- Hodge star, 
- covariant differentiation, δ
- Kronecker's delta symbol etc. You always get output as you expected like the following:
- atlas package output example with Lie derivative calculation:
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- atlas package output example with exterior derivative calculation:
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- atlas package output example with tensor product calculation:
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- atlas package output example with covariant derivative calculation:
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- atlas package output example with interior product and Kronecker's delta symbol calculation:
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- atlas package output example with calculation in a manifold with symbolic dimension:
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Single solving path for almost any problem
With the Atlas package you always have one and the same solving path for almost all your differential geometry problems. You start with definitions of manifolds, vector and tensor fields, p- forms and mappings between the manifolds.
When you get your differential geometry entities defined, you use standard operators to get various quantities of your entities:
- Projectors - automatic calculation of projectors of a mapping
- Invariants - automatic calculation of invariants of a mapping
- Connection - automatic calculation of connection 1-forms
- Curvature - automatic calculation of curvature 2-forms
- Torsion - automatic calculation of torsion 2-forms
- Riemann - automatic Riemann tensor calculation
- Ricci - automatic Ricci tensor calculation
- RicciScalar - automatic Ricci scalar calculation
This is standard procedure which can be automated completely.
All calculations are as coordinate free as possible
In the
package all calculations are performed in terms of tensors, vectors and p-forms (not their components!). For instance, conformally flat metric tensor of sphere 
is presented as
, where 
are coframe 1-forms and symbol - is tensor product operator (see examples below).
To get more information about the main principle of the package structure and to look through some complete examples see Examples.
To look through references list see References.
Some calculations with symbolic dimension are available
The
package allows one to make some useful calculations even if the working dimension is symbolic. For example, if 
is the dimension, 
are coframe 1-forms and 
are frame vectors then decomposition
(of interior product of vector and 1-form ) - is one of the available calculation. Another example is Lie bracket decomposition:
To get more information about this possibility see Dimension.
Almost any differential geometry entity can be indexed
In the package any object (constant, tensor, p-form, manifold etc.) can be indexed. This is very flexible feature. For or more information on indexing facilities, see Indexing.
Easy customizable simplification of your results
Because computations with tensors and p-forms usually involve a great number of quantities, it is important to make simplification in each step of the computations. For this reason, the user can customize the simplification routine `atlas/simp` for a particular problem. For more information, see Simplification routine.
