Download or read book Classical Aspherical Manifolds written by F. Thomas Farrell and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aspherical manifolds - those whose universal covers are contractible - arise classically in many areas of mathematics. They occur in Lie group theory as certain double coset spaces and in synthetic geometry as the space forms preserving the geometry.
Download or read book Classical Aspherical Manifolds written by F. Thomas Farrell and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 1990 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aspherical manifolds - those whose universal covers are contractible - arise classically in many areas of mathematics. They occur in Lie group theory as certain double coset spaces and in synthetic geometry as the space forms preserving the geometry.
Download or read book Lectures on Hilbert Cube Manifolds written by Thomas A. Chapman and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 1976-12-31 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The goal of these lectures is to present an introduction to the geometric topology of the Hilbert cube Q and separable metric manifolds modeled on Q, which are called here Hilbert cube manifolds or Q-manifolds. In the past ten years there has been a great deal of research on Q and Q-manifolds which is scattered throughout several papers in the literature. The author presents here a self-contained treatment of only a few of these results in the hope that it will stimulate further interest in this area. No new material is presented here and no attempt has been made to be complete. For example, the author has omitted the important theorem of Schori-West stating that the hyperspace of closed subsets of $[0,1]$ is homeomorphic to Q. In an appendix (prepared independently by R. D. Anderson, D. W. Curtis, R. Schori and G. Kozlowski) there is a list of problems which are of current interest. This includes problems on Q-manifolds as well as manifolds modeled on various linear spaces. The reader is referred to this for a much broader perspective of the field. In the first four chapters, the basic tools which are needed in all of the remaining chapters are presented. Beyond this there seem to be at least two possible courses of action. The reader who is interested only in the triangulation and classification of Q-manifolds should read straight through (avoiding only Chapter VI). In particular the topological invariance of Whitehead torsion appears in Section 38. The reader who is interested in R. D. Edwards' recent proof that every ANR is a Q-manifold factor should read the first four chapters and then (with the single exception of 26.1) skip over to Chapters XIII and XIV.
Download or read book Index Theory Coarse Geometry and Topology of Manifolds written by John Roe and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 1996 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lecture notes from the conference held Aug. 1995 in Boulder, Colo.
Download or read book Lectures on Symplectic Manifolds written by Alan Weinstein and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 1977 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features notes with sections containing a description of some of the basic constructions and results on symplectic manifolds and lagrangian submanifolds. This title also includes sections dealing with various aspects of the quantization problem, as wel as those giving a feedback of ideas from quantization theory into symplectic geometry itslef.
Download or read book The Topological Classification of Stratified Spaces written by Shmuel Weinberger and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the theory for stratified spaces, along with important examples and applications, that is analogous to the surgery theory for manifolds. In the first expository account of this field, Weinberger provides topologists with a new way of looking at the classification theory of singular spaces with his original results. Divided into three parts, the book begins with an overview of modern high-dimensional manifold theory. Rather than including complete proofs of all theorems, Weinberger demonstrates key constructions, gives convenient formulations, and shows the usefulness of the technology. Part II offers the parallel theory for stratified spaces. Here, the topological category is most completely developed using the methods of "controlled topology." Many examples illustrating the topological invariance and noninvariance of obstructions and characteristic classes are provided. Applications for embeddings and immersions of manifolds, for the geometry of group actions, for algebraic varieties, and for rigidity theorems are found in Part III. This volume will be of interest to topologists, as well as mathematicians in other fields such as differential geometry, operator theory, and algebraic geometry.
Download or read book Handbook of Topological Fixed Point Theory written by Robert F. Brown and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-12-05 with total page 966 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first in the world literature presenting all new trends in topological fixed point theory. Until now all books connected to the topological fixed point theory were devoted only to some parts of this theory. This book will be especially useful for post-graduate students and researchers interested in the fixed point theory, particularly in topological methods in nonlinear analysis, differential equations and dynamical systems. The content is also likely to stimulate the interest of mathematical economists, population dynamics experts as well as theoretical physicists exploring the topological dynamics.
Download or read book Handbook of Geometric Topology written by R.B. Sher and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2001-12-20 with total page 1145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geometric Topology is a foundational component of modern mathematics, involving the study of spacial properties and invariants of familiar objects such as manifolds and complexes. This volume, which is intended both as an introduction to the subject and as a wide ranging resouce for those already grounded in it, consists of 21 expository surveys written by leading experts and covering active areas of current research. They provide the reader with an up-to-date overview of this flourishing branch of mathematics.
Download or read book Novikov Conjectures Index Theorems and Rigidity Volume 1 written by Steven C. Ferry and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-11-23 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These volumes are the outgrowth of a conference held at the Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach (Germany) on the subject of 'Novikov Conjectures, Index Theorems and Rigidity'.
Download or read book Dimensions and C ast Algebras written by Edward G. Effros and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 1981 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses elementary algebras and $C DEGREES*$-algebras, namely those which are direct limits of complex semi simple al
Download or read book Orderings Valuations and Quadratic Forms written by Tsit-Yuen Lam and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 1983 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an introduction to ordered fields and reduced quadratic forms using valuation-theoretic techniques. This book describes the techniques of residue forms and the relevant Springer theory.
Download or read book Banach Spaces of Analytic Functions and Absolutely Summing Operators written by Aleksander Pełczyński and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 1977-12-31 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book surveys results concerning bases and various approximation properties in the classical spaces of analytical functions. It contains extensive bibliographical comments.
Download or read book Algebraic Analysis of Solvable Lattice Models written by Michio Jimbo and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 1994 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the NSF-CBMS Regional Conference lectures presented by Miwa in June 1993, this book surveys recent developments in the interplay between solvable lattice models in statistical mechanics and representation theory of quantum affine algebras. Because results in this subject were scattered in the literature, this book fills the need for a systematic account, focusing attention on fundamentals without assuming prior knowledge about lattice models or representation theory. After a brief account of basic principles in statistical mechanics, the authors discuss the standard subjects concerning solvable lattice models in statistical mechanics, the main examples being the spin 1/2 XXZ chain and the six-vertex model. The book goes on to introduce the main objects of study, the corner transfer matrices and the vertex operators, and discusses some of their aspects from the viewpoint of physics. Once the physical motivations are in place, the authors return to the mathematics, covering the Frenkel-Jing bosonization of a certain module, formulas for the vertex operators using bosons, the role of representation theory, and correlation functions and form factors. The limit of the XXX model is briefly discussed, and the book closes with a discussion of other types of models and related works.
Download or read book Dynamics in Several Complex Variables written by John Erik Fornæss and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is part of the CBMS lecture series, held in Albany, New York in June 1994 aimed to introduce the audience to the literature on complex dynamics in higher dimension. These notes provide an easy to read introduction into the field. This monograph then points readers towards technically more advanced literature.
Download or read book Subfactors and Knots written by Vaughan F. R. Jones and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is based on a set of lectures presented by the author at the NSF-CBMS Regional Conference, Applications of Operator Algebras to Knot Theory and Mathematical Physics, held at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis in June 1988. The audience consisted of low-dimensional topologists and operator algebraists, so the speaker attempted to make the material comprehensible to both groups. He provides an extensive introduction to the theory of von Neumann algebras and to knot theory and braid groups. The presentation follows the historical development of the theory of subfactors and the ensuing applications to knot theory, including full proofs of some of the major results. The author treats in detail the Homfly and Kauffman polynomials, introduces statistical mechanical methods on knot diagrams, and attempts an analogy with conformal field theory. Written by one of the foremost mathematicians of the day, this book will give readers an appreciation of the unexpected interconnections between different parts of mathematics and physics.
Download or read book Geometric Analysis and Function Spaces written by Steven George Krantz and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings into focus the synergistic interaction between analysis and geometry by examining a variety of topics in function theory, real analysis, harmonic analysis, several complex variables, and group actions. Krantz's approach is motivated by examples, both classical and modern, which highlight the symbiotic relationship between analysis and geometry. Creating a synthesis among a host of different topics, this book is useful to researchers in geometry and analysis and may be of interest to physicists, astronomers, and engineers in certain areas. The book is based on lectures presented at an NSF-CBMS Regional Conference held in May 1992.
Download or read book Equivariant Homotopy and Cohomology Theory written by J. Peter May and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 1996 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume introduces equivariant homotopy, homology, and cohomology theory, along with various related topics in modern algebraic topology. It explains the main ideas behind some of the most striking recent advances in the subject. The works begins with a development of the equivariant algebraic topology of spaces culminating in a discussion of the Sullivan conjecture that emphasizes its relationship with classical Smith theory. The book then introduces equivariant stable homotopy theory, the equivariant stable homotopy category, and the most important examples of equivariant cohomology theories. The basic machinery that is needed to make serious use of equivariant stable homotopy theory is presented next, along with discussions of the Segal conjecture and generalized Tate cohomology. Finally, the book gives an introduction to "brave new algebra", the study of point-set level algebraic structures on spectra and its equivariant applications. Emphasis is placed on equivariant complex cobordism, and related results on that topic are presented in detail.
