Author: Richard Melrose
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1439864608
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Based on the lecture notes of a graduate course given at MIT, this sophisticated treatment leads to a variety of current research topics and will undoubtedly serve as a guide to further studies.
The Atiyah-Patodi-Singer Index Theorem
Author: Richard Melrose
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1439864608
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Based on the lecture notes of a graduate course given at MIT, this sophisticated treatment leads to a variety of current research topics and will undoubtedly serve as a guide to further studies.
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1439864608
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Based on the lecture notes of a graduate course given at MIT, this sophisticated treatment leads to a variety of current research topics and will undoubtedly serve as a guide to further studies.
Invariance Theory
Author: Peter B. Gilkey
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9780849378744
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
This book treats the Atiyah-Singer index theorem using the heat equation, which gives a local formula for the index of any elliptic complex. Heat equation methods are also used to discuss Lefschetz fixed point formulas, the Gauss-Bonnet theorem for a manifold with smooth boundary, and the geometrical theorem for a manifold with smooth boundary. The author uses invariance theory to identify the integrand of the index theorem for classical elliptic complexes with the invariants of the heat equation.
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9780849378744
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
This book treats the Atiyah-Singer index theorem using the heat equation, which gives a local formula for the index of any elliptic complex. Heat equation methods are also used to discuss Lefschetz fixed point formulas, the Gauss-Bonnet theorem for a manifold with smooth boundary, and the geometrical theorem for a manifold with smooth boundary. The author uses invariance theory to identify the integrand of the index theorem for classical elliptic complexes with the invariants of the heat equation.
K-theory
Author: Michael Atiyah
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 0429973179
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
These notes are based on the course of lectures I gave at Harvard in the fall of 1964. They constitute a self-contained account of vector bundles and K-theory assuming only the rudiments of point-set topology and linear algebra. One of the features of the treatment is that no use is made of ordinary homology or cohomology theory. In fact, rational cohomology is defined in terms of K-theory.The theory is taken as far as the solution of the Hopf invariant problem and a start is mode on the J-homomorphism. In addition to the lecture notes proper, two papers of mine published since 1964 have been reproduced at the end. The first, dealing with operations, is a natural supplement to the material in Chapter III. It provides an alternative approach to operations which is less slick but more fundamental than the Grothendieck method of Chapter III, and it relates operations and filtration. Actually, the lectures deal with compact spaces, not cell-complexes, and so the skeleton-filtration does not figure in the notes. The second paper provides a new approach to K-theory and so fills an obvious gap in the lecture notes.
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 0429973179
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
These notes are based on the course of lectures I gave at Harvard in the fall of 1964. They constitute a self-contained account of vector bundles and K-theory assuming only the rudiments of point-set topology and linear algebra. One of the features of the treatment is that no use is made of ordinary homology or cohomology theory. In fact, rational cohomology is defined in terms of K-theory.The theory is taken as far as the solution of the Hopf invariant problem and a start is mode on the J-homomorphism. In addition to the lecture notes proper, two papers of mine published since 1964 have been reproduced at the end. The first, dealing with operations, is a natural supplement to the material in Chapter III. It provides an alternative approach to operations which is less slick but more fundamental than the Grothendieck method of Chapter III, and it relates operations and filtration. Actually, the lectures deal with compact spaces, not cell-complexes, and so the skeleton-filtration does not figure in the notes. The second paper provides a new approach to K-theory and so fills an obvious gap in the lecture notes.
Geometric Scattering Theory
Author: Richard B. Melrose
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521498104
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
These lecture notes are intended as a non-technical overview of scattering theory.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521498104
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
These lecture notes are intended as a non-technical overview of scattering theory.
Elliptic Boundary Problems for Dirac Operators
Author: Bernhelm Booß-Bavnbek
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461203376
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Elliptic boundary problems have enjoyed interest recently, espe cially among C* -algebraists and mathematical physicists who want to understand single aspects of the theory, such as the behaviour of Dirac operators and their solution spaces in the case of a non-trivial boundary. However, the theory of elliptic boundary problems by far has not achieved the same status as the theory of elliptic operators on closed (compact, without boundary) manifolds. The latter is nowadays rec ognized by many as a mathematical work of art and a very useful technical tool with applications to a multitude of mathematical con texts. Therefore, the theory of elliptic operators on closed manifolds is well-known not only to a small group of specialists in partial dif ferential equations, but also to a broad range of researchers who have specialized in other mathematical topics. Why is the theory of elliptic boundary problems, compared to that on closed manifolds, still lagging behind in popularity? Admittedly, from an analytical point of view, it is a jigsaw puzzle which has more pieces than does the elliptic theory on closed manifolds. But that is not the only reason.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461203376
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Elliptic boundary problems have enjoyed interest recently, espe cially among C* -algebraists and mathematical physicists who want to understand single aspects of the theory, such as the behaviour of Dirac operators and their solution spaces in the case of a non-trivial boundary. However, the theory of elliptic boundary problems by far has not achieved the same status as the theory of elliptic operators on closed (compact, without boundary) manifolds. The latter is nowadays rec ognized by many as a mathematical work of art and a very useful technical tool with applications to a multitude of mathematical con texts. Therefore, the theory of elliptic operators on closed manifolds is well-known not only to a small group of specialists in partial dif ferential equations, but also to a broad range of researchers who have specialized in other mathematical topics. Why is the theory of elliptic boundary problems, compared to that on closed manifolds, still lagging behind in popularity? Admittedly, from an analytical point of view, it is a jigsaw puzzle which has more pieces than does the elliptic theory on closed manifolds. But that is not the only reason.
Calculus on Heisenberg Manifolds
Author: Richard Beals
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691085012
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The description for this book, Calculus on Heisenberg Manifolds. (AM-119), Volume 119, will be forthcoming.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691085012
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The description for this book, Calculus on Heisenberg Manifolds. (AM-119), Volume 119, will be forthcoming.
The Laplacian on a Riemannian Manifold
Author: Steven Rosenberg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521468312
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
This text on analysis of Riemannian manifolds is aimed at students who have had a first course in differentiable manifolds.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521468312
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
This text on analysis of Riemannian manifolds is aimed at students who have had a first course in differentiable manifolds.
Elliptic Operators, Topology, and Asymptotic Methods
Author: John Roe
Publisher: Longman Scientific and Technical
ISBN:
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Publisher: Longman Scientific and Technical
ISBN:
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Collected Papers Of V K Patodi
Author: Michael Atiyah
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9814498955
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
Vijay Kumar Patodi was a brilliant Indian mathematicians who made, during his short life, fundamental contributions to the analytic proof of the index theorem and to the study of differential geometric invariants of manifolds. This set of collected papers edited by Prof M Atiyah and Prof Narasimhan includes his path-breaking papers on the McKean-Singer conjecture and the analytic proof of Riemann-Roch-Hirzebruch theorem for Kähler manifolds. It also contains his celebrated joint papers on the index theorem and the Atiyah-Patodi-Singer invariant.
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9814498955
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
Vijay Kumar Patodi was a brilliant Indian mathematicians who made, during his short life, fundamental contributions to the analytic proof of the index theorem and to the study of differential geometric invariants of manifolds. This set of collected papers edited by Prof M Atiyah and Prof Narasimhan includes his path-breaking papers on the McKean-Singer conjecture and the analytic proof of Riemann-Roch-Hirzebruch theorem for Kähler manifolds. It also contains his celebrated joint papers on the index theorem and the Atiyah-Patodi-Singer invariant.
Notes on Seiberg-Witten Theory
Author: Liviu I. Nicolaescu
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN: 0821821458
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
After background on elliptic equations, Clifford algebras, Dirac operators, and Fredholm theory, chapters introduce solutions of the Seiberg-Witten equations and the group of gauge transformations, then look at algebraic surfaces. A final chapter presents in great detail a cut-and-paste technique for computing Seiberg-Witten invariants, covering elliptic equations on manifolds with cylindrical ends, finite energy monopoles on cylindrical manifolds, local and global properties of the moduli spaces of finite energy monopoles, and the process of reconstructing the space of monopoles on a 4-manifold decomposed into several parts by a hypersurface. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN: 0821821458
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
After background on elliptic equations, Clifford algebras, Dirac operators, and Fredholm theory, chapters introduce solutions of the Seiberg-Witten equations and the group of gauge transformations, then look at algebraic surfaces. A final chapter presents in great detail a cut-and-paste technique for computing Seiberg-Witten invariants, covering elliptic equations on manifolds with cylindrical ends, finite energy monopoles on cylindrical manifolds, local and global properties of the moduli spaces of finite energy monopoles, and the process of reconstructing the space of monopoles on a 4-manifold decomposed into several parts by a hypersurface. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.