Loop Groups (Oxford Mathematical Monographs) - Hardcover

Pressley, Andrew; Segal, Graeme

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 019853535X ISBN 13: 9780198535355

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1987

Synopsis

Loop groups, the simplest class of infinite dimensional Lie groups, have recently been the subject of intense study. This book gives a complete and self-contained account of what is known about them from a geometrical and analytical point of view, drawing together the many branches of mathematics from which current theory developed--algebra, geometry, analysis, combinatorics, and the mathematics of quantum field theory. The authors discuss Loop groups' applications to simple particle physics and explain how the mathematics used in connection with Loop groups is itself interesting and valuable, thereby making this work accessible to mathematicians in many fields.

About this title

About the Author:

Andrew Pressley, Lecturer in Mathematics, King's College, London. Graeme Segal, Reader in Mathematics, University of Oxford.

Review:

'This is an outstanding book, of enormous interest to anyone interested in Lie groups, Lie algebras and/or Quantum Field Theory' Mathematika

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 019853535X
• ISBN 13: 9780198535355
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 350