Download or read book Parabolic Geometries I written by Andreas Cap and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 643 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the equivalence between Cartan connections and underlying structures, including a complete proof of Kostant's version of the Bott - Borel - Weil theorem, which is used as an important tool. This book provides a description of the geometry and its basic invariants.