Download or read book Sporadic Groups written by Michael Aschbacher and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-03-25 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sporadic Groups is the first step in a programme to provide a uniform, self-contained treatment of the foundational material on the sporadic finite simple groups. The classification of the finite simple groups is one of the premier achievements of modern mathematics. The classification demonstrates that each finite simple group is either a finite analogue of a simple Lie group or one of 26 pathological sporadic groups. Sporadic Groups provides for the first time a self-contained treatment of the foundations of the theory of sporadic groups accessible to mathematicians with a basic background in finite groups such as in the author's text Finite Group Theory. Introductory material useful for studying the sporadics, such as a discussion of large extraspecial 2-subgroups and Tits' coset geometries, opens the book. A construction of the Mathieu groups as the automorphism groups of Steiner systems follows. The Golay and Todd modules, and the 2-local geometry for M24 are discussed. This is followed by the standard construction of Conway of the Leech lattice and the Conway group. The Monster is constructed as the automorphism group of the Griess algebra using some of the best features of the approaches of Griess, Conway, and Tits, plus a few new wrinkles. Researchers in finite group theory will find this text invaluable. The subjects treated will interest combinatorists, number theorists, and conformal field theorists.
Download or read book Fixed Point Theorems written by D. R. Smart and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1980-02-14 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics written by Jean Bertoin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1996 book is a comprehensive account of the theory of Lévy processes; aimed at probability theorists.
Download or read book Injective Modules written by Sharpe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1972-07-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the preface of this book, the authors express the view that 'a good working knowledge of injective modules is a sound investment for module theorists'. The existing literature on the subject has tended to deal with the applications of injective modules to ring theory. The aim of this tract is to demonstrate some of the applications of injective modules to commutative algebra. A number of well-known concepts and results which so far have been applicable principally to commutative rings are generalized to a non-commutative context. There are exercises and brief notes appended to each chapter to illustrate and extend the scope of the treatment in the main text. Together with the short bibliography the notes form a guide to sources of reading for students and researchers who wish to delve more exhaustively into the theory of injective modules. The tract is intended primarily for those who have some knowledge of the rudiments of commutative algebra, although these are recalled at the outset.
Download or read book Ideal Theory written by D. G. Northcott and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-06-03 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the modern theory of ideas.
Download or read book Convexity written by Barry Simon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-19 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Convexity is important in theoretical aspects of mathematics and also for economists and physicists. In this monograph the author provides a comprehensive insight into convex sets and functions including the infinite-dimensional case and emphasizing the analytic point of view. Chapter one introduces the reader to the basic definitions and ideas that play central roles throughout the book. The rest of the book is divided into four parts: convexity and topology on infinite-dimensional spaces; Loewner's theorem; extreme points of convex sets and related issues, including the Krein–Milman theorem and Choquet theory; and a discussion of convexity and inequalities. The connections between disparate topics are clearly explained, giving the reader a thorough understanding of how convexity is useful as an analytic tool. A final chapter overviews the subject's history and explores further some of the themes mentioned earlier. This is an excellent resource for anyone interested in this central topic.
Download or read book The Cube A Window to Convex and Discrete Geometry written by Chuanming Zong and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-02-02 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analysis, Algebra, Combinatorics, Graph Theory, Hyperbolic Geometry, Number Theory.
Download or read book Fourier Transforms written by Richard R. Goldberg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This tract gives a clear exposition of the elementary theory of Fourier transforms, so arranged as to give easy access to the recently developed abstract theory of Fourier transforms on a locally compact group. (This latter subject has important applications to the general treatment of unitary representations of the rotation group, the Lorentz group and other classical groups that is of value in quantum field theory and other branches of mathematical physics.) A knowledge of Lebesgue integration and, in one chapter, of Riemann-Stieltjes integration is assumed; the results needed are all stated in the introductory chapter.
Download or read book Riemannian Geometry written by Isaac Chavel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-10 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an introduction to Riemannian geometry, the geometry of curved spaces, for use in a graduate course. Requiring only an understanding of differentiable manifolds, the author covers the introductory ideas of Riemannian geometry followed by a selection of more specialized topics. Also featured are Notes and Exercises for each chapter, to develop and enrich the reader's appreciation of the subject. This second edition, first published in 2006, has a clearer treatment of many topics than the first edition, with new proofs of some theorems and a new chapter on the Riemannian geometry of surfaces. The main themes here are the effect of the curvature on the usual notions of classical Euclidean geometry, and the new notions and ideas motivated by curvature itself. Completely new themes created by curvature include the classical Rauch comparison theorem and its consequences in geometry and topology, and the interaction of microscopic behavior of the geometry with the macroscopic structure of the space.
Download or read book Permutation Group Algorithms written by Ákos Seress and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-03-17 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents
Download or read book Normal Topological Spaces written by Richard A. Alo and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text bridges the gap existing in the field of set theoretical topology between the introductory texts and the more specialised monographs. The authors review fit developments in general topology and discuss important new areas of research and the importance of defining a methodology applicable to this active field of mathematics. The concept of normal cover and related ideas is considered in detail, as are the characterisations of normal spaces, collectionwise normal spaces and their interrelationships with paracompact spaces (and other weaker forms of compactness). Various methods of embedding subspaces are studied, before considering newer concepts such as M-spaces and their relationships with established ideas. These ideas are applied to give new results pertaining to the extension of continuous vector-valued functions. Wallman-Frink compactifications and realcompactifications are also studied to assist in unifying the ideas through the use of the more general L-filter.
Download or read book Bipartite Graphs and Their Applications written by Armen S. Asratian and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-07-13 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book which deals solely with bipartite graphs. Together with traditional material, the reader will also find many new and unusual results. Essentially all proofs are given in full; many of these have been streamlined specifically for this text. Numerous exercises of all standards have also been included. The theory is illustrated with many applications especially to problems in timetabling, Chemistry, Communication Networks and Computer Science. For the most part the material is accessible to any reader with a graduate understanding of mathematics. However, the book contains advanced sections requiring much more specialized knowledge, which will be of interest to specialists in combinatorics and graph theory.
Download or read book Introduction to P Adic Numbers and Their Functions written by Kurt Mahler and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1973-03-29 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Induced Representations of Locally Compact Groups written by Eberhard Kaniuth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive presentation of the theories of induced representations and Mackey analysis applied to a wide variety of groups.
Download or read book Hopf Algebras written by Eiichi Abe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-06-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the basic theory of Hopf algebras for those familiar with basic linear and commutative algebra.
Download or read book Combinatorics of Minuscule Representations written by R. M. Green and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-21 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses the combinatorics and representation theory to construct and study important families of Lie algebras and Weyl groups.
Download or read book The Direct Method in Soliton Theory written by Ryogo Hirota and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-07-22 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Account of method of solving soliton equations by the inventor of the method.
