Author: Ross Geoghegan
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0387746110
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
This book is about the interplay between algebraic topology and the theory of infinite discrete groups. It is a hugely important contribution to the field of topological and geometric group theory, and is bound to become a standard reference in the field. To keep the length reasonable and the focus clear, the author assumes the reader knows or can easily learn the necessary algebra, but wants to see the topology done in detail. The central subject of the book is the theory of ends. Here the author adopts a new algebraic approach which is geometric in spirit.
Topological Methods in Group Theory
Author: Ross Geoghegan
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0387746110
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
This book is about the interplay between algebraic topology and the theory of infinite discrete groups. It is a hugely important contribution to the field of topological and geometric group theory, and is bound to become a standard reference in the field. To keep the length reasonable and the focus clear, the author assumes the reader knows or can easily learn the necessary algebra, but wants to see the topology done in detail. The central subject of the book is the theory of ends. Here the author adopts a new algebraic approach which is geometric in spirit.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0387746110
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
This book is about the interplay between algebraic topology and the theory of infinite discrete groups. It is a hugely important contribution to the field of topological and geometric group theory, and is bound to become a standard reference in the field. To keep the length reasonable and the focus clear, the author assumes the reader knows or can easily learn the necessary algebra, but wants to see the topology done in detail. The central subject of the book is the theory of ends. Here the author adopts a new algebraic approach which is geometric in spirit.
Homological Group Theory
Author: Charles Terence Clegg Wall
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521227291
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
Eminent mathematicians have presented papers on homological and combinatorial techniques in group theory. The lectures are aimed at presenting in a unified way new developments in the area.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521227291
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
Eminent mathematicians have presented papers on homological and combinatorial techniques in group theory. The lectures are aimed at presenting in a unified way new developments in the area.
Topological Methods in Group Theory
Author: Ross Geoghegan
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0387746145
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
This book is about the interplay between algebraic topology and the theory of infinite discrete groups. It is a hugely important contribution to the field of topological and geometric group theory, and is bound to become a standard reference in the field. To keep the length reasonable and the focus clear, the author assumes the reader knows or can easily learn the necessary algebra, but wants to see the topology done in detail. The central subject of the book is the theory of ends. Here the author adopts a new algebraic approach which is geometric in spirit.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0387746145
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
This book is about the interplay between algebraic topology and the theory of infinite discrete groups. It is a hugely important contribution to the field of topological and geometric group theory, and is bound to become a standard reference in the field. To keep the length reasonable and the focus clear, the author assumes the reader knows or can easily learn the necessary algebra, but wants to see the topology done in detail. The central subject of the book is the theory of ends. Here the author adopts a new algebraic approach which is geometric in spirit.
Topological Methods in Euclidean Spaces
Author: Gregory L. Naber
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486153444
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Extensive development of such topics as elementary combinatorial techniques, Sperner's Lemma, the Brouwer Fixed Point Theorem, and the Stone-Weierstrass Theorem. New section of solutions to selected problems.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486153444
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Extensive development of such topics as elementary combinatorial techniques, Sperner's Lemma, the Brouwer Fixed Point Theorem, and the Stone-Weierstrass Theorem. New section of solutions to selected problems.
Classical Topology and Combinatorial Group Theory
Author: John Stillwell
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461243726
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
In recent years, many students have been introduced to topology in high school mathematics. Having met the Mobius band, the seven bridges of Konigsberg, Euler's polyhedron formula, and knots, the student is led to expect that these picturesque ideas will come to full flower in university topology courses. What a disappointment "undergraduate topology" proves to be! In most institutions it is either a service course for analysts, on abstract spaces, or else an introduction to homological algebra in which the only geometric activity is the completion of commutative diagrams. Pictures are kept to a minimum, and at the end the student still does nr~ understand the simplest topological facts, such as the rcason why knots exist. In my opinion, a well-balanced introduction to topology should stress its intuitive geometric aspect, while admitting the legitimate interest that analysts and algebraists have in the subject. At any rate, this is the aim of the present book. In support of this view, I have followed the historical development where practicable, since it clearly shows the influence of geometric thought at all stages. This is not to claim that topology received its main impetus from geometric recreations like the seven bridges; rather, it resulted from the l'isualization of problems from other parts of mathematics-complex analysis (Riemann), mechanics (Poincare), and group theory (Dehn). It is these connec tions to other parts of mathematics which make topology an important as well as a beautiful subject.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461243726
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
In recent years, many students have been introduced to topology in high school mathematics. Having met the Mobius band, the seven bridges of Konigsberg, Euler's polyhedron formula, and knots, the student is led to expect that these picturesque ideas will come to full flower in university topology courses. What a disappointment "undergraduate topology" proves to be! In most institutions it is either a service course for analysts, on abstract spaces, or else an introduction to homological algebra in which the only geometric activity is the completion of commutative diagrams. Pictures are kept to a minimum, and at the end the student still does nr~ understand the simplest topological facts, such as the rcason why knots exist. In my opinion, a well-balanced introduction to topology should stress its intuitive geometric aspect, while admitting the legitimate interest that analysts and algebraists have in the subject. At any rate, this is the aim of the present book. In support of this view, I have followed the historical development where practicable, since it clearly shows the influence of geometric thought at all stages. This is not to claim that topology received its main impetus from geometric recreations like the seven bridges; rather, it resulted from the l'isualization of problems from other parts of mathematics-complex analysis (Riemann), mechanics (Poincare), and group theory (Dehn). It is these connec tions to other parts of mathematics which make topology an important as well as a beautiful subject.
Geometric and Topological Methods for Quantum Field Theory
Author: Sylvie Paycha
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN: 0821840622
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This volume, based on lectures and short communications at a summer school in Villa de Leyva, Colombia (July 2005), offers an introduction to some recent developments in several active topics at the interface between geometry, topology and quantum field theory. It is aimed at graduate students in physics or mathematics who might want insight in the following topics (covered in five survey lectures): Anomalies and noncommutative geometry, Deformation quantisation and Poisson algebras, Topological quantum field theory and orbifolds. These lectures are followed by nine articles on various topics at the borderline of mathematics and physics ranging from quasicrystals to invariant instantons through black holes, and involving a number of mathematical tools borrowed from geometry, algebra and analysis.
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN: 0821840622
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This volume, based on lectures and short communications at a summer school in Villa de Leyva, Colombia (July 2005), offers an introduction to some recent developments in several active topics at the interface between geometry, topology and quantum field theory. It is aimed at graduate students in physics or mathematics who might want insight in the following topics (covered in five survey lectures): Anomalies and noncommutative geometry, Deformation quantisation and Poisson algebras, Topological quantum field theory and orbifolds. These lectures are followed by nine articles on various topics at the borderline of mathematics and physics ranging from quasicrystals to invariant instantons through black holes, and involving a number of mathematical tools borrowed from geometry, algebra and analysis.
Topological Methods in Hydrodynamics
Author: Vladimir I. Arnold
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0387225897
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
The first monograph to treat topological, group-theoretic, and geometric problems of ideal hydrodynamics and magnetohydrodynamics from a unified point of view. It describes the necessary preliminary notions both in hydrodynamics and pure mathematics with numerous examples and figures. The book is accessible to graduates as well as pure and applied mathematicians working in hydrodynamics, Lie groups, dynamical systems, and differential geometry.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0387225897
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
The first monograph to treat topological, group-theoretic, and geometric problems of ideal hydrodynamics and magnetohydrodynamics from a unified point of view. It describes the necessary preliminary notions both in hydrodynamics and pure mathematics with numerous examples and figures. The book is accessible to graduates as well as pure and applied mathematicians working in hydrodynamics, Lie groups, dynamical systems, and differential geometry.
Ordered Groups and Topology
Author: Adam Clay
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN: 1470431068
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
This book deals with the connections between topology and ordered groups. It begins with a self-contained introduction to orderable groups and from there explores the interactions between orderability and objects in low-dimensional topology, such as knot theory, braid groups, and 3-manifolds, as well as groups of homeomorphisms and other topological structures. The book also addresses recent applications of orderability in the studies of codimension-one foliations and Heegaard-Floer homology. The use of topological methods in proving algebraic results is another feature of the book. The book was written to serve both as a textbook for graduate students, containing many exercises, and as a reference for researchers in topology, algebra, and dynamical systems. A basic background in group theory and topology is the only prerequisite for the reader.
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN: 1470431068
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
This book deals with the connections between topology and ordered groups. It begins with a self-contained introduction to orderable groups and from there explores the interactions between orderability and objects in low-dimensional topology, such as knot theory, braid groups, and 3-manifolds, as well as groups of homeomorphisms and other topological structures. The book also addresses recent applications of orderability in the studies of codimension-one foliations and Heegaard-Floer homology. The use of topological methods in proving algebraic results is another feature of the book. The book was written to serve both as a textbook for graduate students, containing many exercises, and as a reference for researchers in topology, algebra, and dynamical systems. A basic background in group theory and topology is the only prerequisite for the reader.
Topological Methods for Variational Problems with Symmetries
Author: Thomas Bartsch
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3540480994
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Symmetry has a strong impact on the number and shape of solutions to variational problems. This has been observed, for instance, in the search for periodic solutions of Hamiltonian systems or of the nonlinear wave equation; when one is interested in elliptic equations on symmetric domains or in the corresponding semiflows; and when one is looking for "special" solutions of these problems. This book is concerned with Lusternik-Schnirelmann theory and Morse-Conley theory for group invariant functionals. These topological methods are developed in detail with new calculations of the equivariant Lusternik-Schnirelmann category and versions of the Borsuk-Ulam theorem for very general classes of symmetry groups. The Morse-Conley theory is applied to bifurcation problems, in particular to the bifurcation of steady states and hetero-clinic orbits of O(3)-symmetric flows; and to the existence of periodic solutions nearequilibria of symmetric Hamiltonian systems. Some familiarity with the usualminimax theory and basic algebraic topology is assumed.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3540480994
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Symmetry has a strong impact on the number and shape of solutions to variational problems. This has been observed, for instance, in the search for periodic solutions of Hamiltonian systems or of the nonlinear wave equation; when one is interested in elliptic equations on symmetric domains or in the corresponding semiflows; and when one is looking for "special" solutions of these problems. This book is concerned with Lusternik-Schnirelmann theory and Morse-Conley theory for group invariant functionals. These topological methods are developed in detail with new calculations of the equivariant Lusternik-Schnirelmann category and versions of the Borsuk-Ulam theorem for very general classes of symmetry groups. The Morse-Conley theory is applied to bifurcation problems, in particular to the bifurcation of steady states and hetero-clinic orbits of O(3)-symmetric flows; and to the existence of periodic solutions nearequilibria of symmetric Hamiltonian systems. Some familiarity with the usualminimax theory and basic algebraic topology is assumed.
Topological Methods in the Theory of Functions of a Complex Variable. (AM-15), Volume 15
Author: Marston Morse
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400882346
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
The description for this book, Topological Methods in the Theory of Functions of a Complex Variable. (AM-15), Volume 15, will be forthcoming.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400882346
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
The description for this book, Topological Methods in the Theory of Functions of a Complex Variable. (AM-15), Volume 15, will be forthcoming.