Download or read book Quilts Central Extensions Braid Actions and Finite Groups written by Tim Hsu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-05-06 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quilts are 2-complexes used to analyze actions and subgroups of the 3-string braid group and similar groups. This monograph establishes the fundamentals of quilts and discusses connections with central extensions, braid actions, and finite groups. Most results have not previously appeared in a widely available form, and many results appear in print for the first time. This monograph is accessible to graduate students, as a substantial amount of background material is included. The methods and results may be relevant to researchers interested in infinite groups, moonshine, central extensions, triangle groups, dessins d'enfants, and monodromy actions of braid groups.

Download or read book Characters and Cyclotomic Fields in Finite Geometry written by Bernhard Schmidt and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-10-13 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph contributes to the existence theory of difference sets, cyclic irreducible codes and similar objects. The new method of field descent for cyclotomic integers of presribed absolute value is developed. Applications include the first substantial progress towards the Circulant Hadamard Matrix Conjecture and Ryser`s conjecture since decades. It is shown that there is no Barker sequence of length l with 13

Download or read book hp Finite Element Methods for Singular Perturbations written by Jens M. Melenk and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-10-19 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many partial differential equations arising in practice are parameter-dependent problems that are of singularly perturbed type. Prominent examples include plate and shell models for small thickness in solid mechanics, convection-diffusion problems in fluid mechanics, and equations arising in semi-conductor device modelling. Common features of these problems are layers and, in the case of non-smooth geometries, corner singularities. Mesh design principles for the efficient approximation of both features by the hp-version of the finite element method (hp-FEM) are proposed in this volume. For a class of singularly perturbed problems on polygonal domains, robust exponential convergence of the hp-FEM based on these mesh design principles is established rigorously.

Download or read book Punctured Torus Groups and 2 Bridge Knot Groups I written by Hirotaka Akiyoshi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-05-26 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the first part of a work that provides a full account of Jorgensen's theory of punctured torus Kleinian groups and its generalization. It offers an elementary and self-contained description of Jorgensen's theory with a complete proof. Through various informative illustrations, readers are naturally led to an intuitive, synthetic grasp of the theory, which clarifies how a very simple fuchsian group evolves into complicated Kleinian groups.

Download or read book Yetter Drinfel d Hopf Algebras over Groups of Prime Order written by Yorck Sommerhäuser and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-10-19 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being the first monograph devoted to this subject, the book addresses the classification problem for semisimple Hopf algebras, a field that has attracted considerable attention in the last years. The special approach to this problem taken here is via semidirect product decompositions into Yetter-Drinfel'd Hopf algebras and group rings of cyclic groups of prime order. One of the main features of the book is a complete treatment of the structure theory for such Yetter-Drinfel'd Hopf algebras.

Download or read book Lectures on the Automorphism Groups of Kobayashi Hyperbolic Manifolds written by Alexander Isaev and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-03-11 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this monograph the author presents a coherent exposition of recent results on complete characterization of Kobayashi-hyperbolic manifolds with high-dimensional groups of holomorphic automorphisms. These classification results can be viewed as complex-geometric analogues of those known for Riemannian manifolds with high-dimensional isotropy groups that were extensively studied in the 1950s-70s.

Download or read book Moonshine The First Quarter Century and Beyond written by James Lepowsky and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-03 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the impact of the 'Monstrous Moonshine' paper on mathematics and theoretical physics.

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Download or read book Hypoelliptic Estimates and Spectral Theory for Fokker Planck Operators and Witten Laplacians written by Francis Nier and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-01-17 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has recently been a renewal of interest in Fokker-Planck operators, motivated by problems in statistical physics, in kinetic equations, and differential geometry. Compared to more standard problems in the spectral theory of partial differential operators, those operators are not self-adjoint and only hypoelliptic. The aim of the analysis is to give, as generally as possible, an accurate qualitative and quantitative description of the exponential return to the thermodynamical equilibrium. While exploring and improving recent results in this direction, this volume proposes a review of known techniques on: the hypoellipticity of polynomial of vector fields and its global counterpart, the global Weyl-Hörmander pseudo-differential calculus, the spectral theory of non-self-adjoint operators, the semi-classical analysis of Schrödinger-type operators, the Witten complexes, and the Morse inequalities.

Download or read book Tutorials in Mathematical Biosciences II written by James Sneyd and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-06-13 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a series of models in the general area of cell physiology and signal transduction, with particular attention being paid to intracellular calcium dynamics, and the role played by calcium in a variety of cell types. Calcium plays a crucial role in cell physiology, and the study of its dynamics lends insight into many different cellular processes. In particular, calcium plays a central role in muscular contraction, olfactory transduction and synaptic communication, three of the topics to be addressed in detail in this book. In addition to the models, much of the underlying physiology is presented, so that readers may learn both the mathematics and the physiology, and see how the models are applied to specific biological questions. It is intended primarily as a graduate text or a research reference. It will serve as a concise and up-to-date introduction to all those who wish to learn about the state of calcium dynamics modeling, and how such models are applied to physiological questions.

Download or read book A Concise Course on Stochastic Partial Differential Equations written by Claudia Prévôt and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-05-26 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These lectures concentrate on (nonlinear) stochastic partial differential equations (SPDE) of evolutionary type. There are three approaches to analyze SPDE: the "martingale measure approach", the "mild solution approach" and the "variational approach". The purpose of these notes is to give a concise and as self-contained as possible an introduction to the "variational approach". A large part of necessary background material is included in appendices.

Download or read book Attractivity and Bifurcation for Nonautonomous Dynamical Systems written by Martin Rasmussen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-06-08 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although, bifurcation theory of equations with autonomous and periodic time dependence is a major object of research in the study of dynamical systems since decades, the notion of a nonautonomous bifurcation is not yet established. In this book, two different approaches are developed which are based on special definitions of local attractivity and repulsivity. It is shown that these notions lead to nonautonomous Morse decompositions.

Download or read book Iterative Approximation of Fixed Points written by Vasile Berinde and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-04-20 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph gives an introductory treatment of the most important iterative methods for constructing fixed points of nonlinear contractive type mappings. For each iterative method considered, it summarizes the most significant contributions in the area by presenting some of the most relevant convergence theorems. It also presents applications to the solution of nonlinear operator equations as well as the appropriate error analysis of the main iterative methods.

Download or read book Geometric Aspects of Functional Analysis written by Vitali D. Milman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-04-27 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of original papers related to the Israeli GAFA seminar (on Geometric Aspects of Functional Analysis) during the years 2004-2005 reflects the general trends of the theory and are a source of inspiration for research. Most of the papers deal with different aspects of the Asymptotic Geometric Analysis, ranging from classical topics in the geometry of convex bodies to the study of sections or projections of convex bodies.

Download or read book Deformations of Singularities written by Jan Stevens and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These notes deal with deformation theory of complex analytic singularities and related objects. The first part treats general theory. The central notion is that of versal deformation in several variants. The theory is developed both in an abstract way and in a concrete way suitable for computations. The second part deals with more specific problems, specially on curves and surfaces. Smoothings of singularities are the main concern. Examples are spread throughout the text.

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Download or read book Topology of Singular Fibers of Differentiable Maps written by Osamu Saeki and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-08-30 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume develops a thorough theory of singular fibers of generic differentiable maps. This is the first work that establishes the foundational framework of the global study of singular differentiable maps of negative codimension from the viewpoint of differential topology. The book contains not only a general theory, but also some explicit examples together with a number of very concrete applications. This is a very interesting subject in differential topology, since it shows a beautiful interplay between the usual theory of singularities of differentiable maps and the geometric topology of manifolds.