Handbook of Group Actions, Volume I (Vol. 31 of the Advanced Lectures in Mathematics series) - Softcover

[various Contributors]

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1571463003 ISBN 13: 9781571463005

Publisher: International Press of Boston, 2015

Synopsis

Groups and group actions are probably the most central objects in mathematics. <P>Comprising volumes 31 and 32 of the ALM series (with further volumes forthcoming), the Handbook of Group Actions presents survey articles on the topic of group actions and how they appear in several mathematical contexts. The general subject matter is organized under the following sections: geometry, mapping class groups, knot groups, topology, representation theory, deformation theory, and discrete groups. <P>The various articles deal with both classical material and modern developments. They are written by specialists in their respective subject areas, and addressed to graduate students who want to learn the theory, as well as to specialists as a reference. <P> <P>This is the first volume of the Handbook of Group Actions.

Edition details

• Publisher: International Press of Boston
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1571463003
• ISBN 13: 9781571463005
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 624
• Editor: Lizhen Ji (University Of Michigan), Athanase Papadopoulos (Université De Strasbourg, France), Shing-Tung Yau (Harvard University)