Algebraic Curves over a Finite Field (Princeton Series in Applied Mathematics)
by J. W.P. Hirschfeld, G. Korchmaros, and F Torres
This book provides an accessible and self-contained introduction to the theory of algebraic curves over a finite field, a subject that has been of fundamental importance to mathematics for many years and that has essential applications in areas such as finite geometry, number theory, error-correcting codes, and cryptology. Unlike other books, this one emphasizes the algebraic geometry rather than the function field approach to algebraic curves. The authors begin by developing the general theory...
Discrete Groups, Expanding Graphs and Invariant Measures (Progress in Mathematics, #125)
by Alex Lubotzky
In the last ?fteen years two seemingly unrelated problems, one in computer science and the other in measure theory, were solved by amazingly similar techniques from representation theory and from analytic number theory. One problem is the - plicit construction of expanding graphs ("expanders"). These are highly connected sparse graphs whose existence can be easily demonstrated but whose explicit c- struction turns out to be a dif?cult task. Since expanders serve as basic building blocks for vari...
Arithmetic of Higher-Dimensional Algebraic Varieties (Progress in Mathematics, #226)
This text offers a collection of survey and research papers by leading specialists in the field documenting the current understanding of higher dimensional varieties. Recently, it has become clear that ideas from many branches of mathematics can be successfully employed in the study of rational and integral points. This book will be very valuable for researchers from these various fields who have an interest in arithmetic applications, specialists in arithmetic geometry itself, and graduate stud...
From the reviews of Vol. IV: "This is the fourth volume of J-P. Serre's "Collected Papers" covering the period 1985-1998. Items, numbered 133-173, contain "the essence" of his work from that period and are devoted to number theory, algebraic geometry, and group theory. Half of them are articles and another half are summaries of his courses in those years and letters. Most courses have never been previously published, nor proofs of the announced results. The letters reproduced, however (in partic...
2019 Weekly Planner (Planner 2018-2019 Academic Year, #10)
by Essie R Rushing
Bounds and Asymptotics for Orthogonal Polynomials for Varying Weights (SpringerBriefs in Mathematics)
by Eli Levin and Doron S. Lubinsky
This book establishes bounds and asymptotics under almost minimal conditions on the varying weights, and applies them to universality limits and entropy integrals. Orthogonal polynomials associated with varying weights play a key role in analyzing random matrices and other topics. This book will be of use to a wide community of mathematicians, physicists, and statisticians dealing with techniques of potential theory, orthogonal polynomials, approximation theory, as well as random matrices.
Groups, Rings, Modules (Dover Books on Mathematics)
by Maurice Auslander
"This classic monograph is geared toward advanced undergraduates and graduate students and presupposes some familiarity with sets, groups, rings, and vector spaces. Topics include sets and maps, monoids and groups, unique factorization domains, localization and tensor products, applications of fundamental theorem, algebraic field extension, Dedekind domains, and much more. 1974 edition"--
Hyperidentities are important formulae of second-order logic, and research in hyperidentities paves way for the study of second-order logic and second-order model theory.This book illustrates many important current trends and perspectives for the field of hyperidentities and their applications, of interest to researchers in modern algebra and discrete mathematics. It covers a number of directions, including the characterizations of the Boolean algebra of n-ary Boolean functions and the distribu...
Nonlinear Superposition Operators (Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics)
by Jurgen Appell and Petr P. Zabrejko
This book is a self-contained account of knowledge of the theory of nonlinear superposition operators: a generalization of the notion of functions. The theory developed here is applicable to operators in a wide variety of function spaces, and it is here that the modern theory diverges from classical nonlinear analysis. The purpose of this book is to collect the basic facts about the superposition operator, to present the main ideas which are useful in studying its properties and to provide a com...
Classical and Quantum Physics (Springer Proceedings in Physics, #229)
This proceedings is based on the interdisciplinary workshop held in Madrid, 5-9 March 2018, dedicated to Alberto Ibort on his 60th birthday. Alberto has great and significantly contributed to many fields of mathematics and physics, always with highly original and innovative ideas.Most of Albertos's scientific activity has been motivated by geometric ideas, concepts and tools that are deeply related to the framework of classical dynamics and quantum mechanics.Let us mention some of the fields of...
Dieses Buch behandelt hauptsachlich zwei Themenkreise: Der Bairesche Kategorie-Satz als Hilfsmittel fur Existenzbeweise sowie Die "Dualitat" zwischen Mass und Kategorie. Die Kategorie-Methode wird durch viele typische Anwendungen erlautert; die Analogie, die zwischen Mass und Kategorie besteht, wird nach den verschiedensten Richtungen hin genauer untersucht. Hierzu findet der Leser eine kurze Einfuhrung in die Grundlagen der metrischen Topologie; ausserdem werden grundlegende Eigenschaften des L...
Finite Geometric Structures and Their Applications (CIME Summer Schools, v. 60)
R.C. Bose: Graphs and designs.- R.H. Bruck: Construction problems in finite projective spaces.- R.H.F. Denniston: Packings of PG(3,q).- J. Doyen: Recent results on Steiner triple systems.- H. Luneburg: Gruppen und endliche projektive Ebenen.- J.A. Thas: 4-gonal configurations.- H.P. Young: Affine triple systems.
Algebraic K-Theory of Crystallographic Groups (Lecture Notes in Mathematics, #2113)
by Daniel Scott Farley and Ivonne Johanna Ortiz
The Farrell-Jones isomorphism conjecture in algebraic K-theory offers a description of the algebraic K-theory of a group using a generalized homology theory. In cases where the conjecture is known to be a theorem, it gives a powerful method for computing the lower algebraic K-theory of a group. This book contains a computation of the lower algebraic K-theory of the split three-dimensional crystallographic groups, a geometrically important class of three-dimensional crystallographic group, repres...
Primer for Point and Space Groups (Undergraduate Texts in Contemporary Physics)
by Richard Liboff
Written in the spirit of Liboff's acclaimed text on Quantum Mechanics, this introduction to group theory offers an exceptionally clear presentation with a good sense of what to explain, which examples are most appropriate, and when to give a counter-example.
Ever since the discovery of the five platonic solids in ancient times, the study of symmetry and regularity has been one of the most fascinating aspects of mathematics. Quite often the arithmetical regularity properties of an object imply its uniqueness and the existence of many symmetries. This interplay between regularity and symmetry properties of graphs is the theme of this book. Starting from very elementary regularity properties, the concept of a distance-regular graph arises naturally as...
Mirrors and Reflections (Universitext)
by Alexandre V. Borovik and Anna Borovik
This graduate/advanced undergraduate textbook contains a systematic and elementary treatment of finite groups generated by reflections. The approach is based on fundamental geometric considerations in Coxeter complexes, and emphasizes the intuitive geometric aspects of the theory of reflection groups. Key features include: many important concepts in the proofs are illustrated in simple drawings, which give easy access to the theory; a large number of exercises at various levels of difficulty; so...
From Combinatorics to Philosophy: The Legacy of G. -C. Rota provides an assessment of G. -C. Rota's legacy to current international research issues in mathematics, philosophy and computer science. This volume includes chapters by leading researchers, as well as a number of invited research papers. Rota's legacy connects European and Italian research communities to the USA by providing inspiration to several generations of researchers in combinatorics, philosophy and computer science. From Combin...
The continuing vigor and diversity of research on automorphic representations and their applications to arithmetic are clearly reflected in this volume. The depth and breadth of Rallis's influence are also reflected. The papers in this volume represent many of the most recent developments and directions.
The first part of this book provides an elementary and self-contained exposition of classical Galois theory and its applications to questions of solvability of algebraic equations in explicit form. The second part describes a surprising analogy between the fundamental theorem of Galois theory and the classification of coverings over a topological space. The third part contains a geometric description of finite algebraic extensions of the field of meromorphic functions on a Riemann surface and pr...
Generalized B*-Algebras and Applications (Lecture Notes in Mathematics, #2298)
by Maria Fragoulopoulou, Atsushi Inoue, Martin Weigt, and Ioannis Zarakas
This book reviews the theory of 'generalized B*-algebras' (GB*-algebras), a class of complete locally convex *-algebras which includes all C*-algebras and some of their extensions. A functional calculus and a spectral theory for GB*-algebras is presented, together with results such as Ogasawara's commutativity condition, Gelfand–Naimark type theorems, a Vidav–Palmer type theorem, an unbounded representation theory, and miscellaneous applications. Numerous contributions to the subject have been...
Burnside Groups (Lecture Notes in Mathematics, #806)
Correspondances De Howe Sur UN Corps p-Adique (Psychopharmacology, #1291)
by Colette Moeglin, Marie-France Vigneras, and Jean-Loup Waldspurger
This book grew out of seminar held at the University of Paris 7 during the academic year 1985-86. The aim of the seminar was to give an exposition of the theory of the Metaplectic Representation (or Weil Representation) over a p-adic field. The book begins with the algebraic theory of symplectic and unitary spaces and a general presentation of metaplectic representations. It continues with exposes on the recent work of Kudla (Howe Conjecture and induction) and of Howe (proof of the conjecture in...