Dynamical Systems VIII : Singularity Theory II. Applications

V. I. Arnol'd

ISBN 10: 3642081010 / ISBN 13: 9783642081019

Published by Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - In the first volume of this survey (Arnol'd et al. (1988), hereafter cited as 'EMS 6') we acquainted the reader with the basic concepts and methods of the theory of singularities of smooth mappings and functions. This theory has numerous applications in mathematics and physics; here we begin describing these applica tions. Nevertheless the present volume is essentially independent of the first one: all of the concepts of singularity theory that we use are introduced in the course of the presentation, and references to EMS 6 are confined to the citation of technical results. Although our main goal is the presentation of analready formulated theory, the readerwill also come upon some comparatively recent results, apparently unknown even to specialists. We pointout some of these results. 2 3 In the consideration of mappings from C into C in3. 6 of Chapter 1, we define the bifurcation diagram of such a mapping, formulate a K(n, 1)-theorem for the complements to the bifurcation diagrams of simple singularities, give the definition of the Mond invariant N in the spirit of 'hunting for invariants', and we draw the reader's attention to a method of constructing the image of a mapping from the corresponding function on a manifold with boundary. In4. 6 of the same chapter we introduce the concept of a versal deformation of a function with a nonisolated singularity in the dass of functions whose critical sets are arbitrary complete intersections of fixed dimension.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dynamical Systems VIII : Singularity Theory II. Applications
• Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3642081010
• ISBN 13: 9783642081019
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 235W x 155H x 14D millimeters 235 millimeters width by 155 millimeters height by 14 millimeters depth
• Weight: 382 grams

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Synopsis

This book is devoted to applications of singularity theory in mathematics and physics. The authors study bifurcation sets arising in the theory of dynamical systems and the theory of partial differential equations. All four authors are well-known specialists in singularity theory. They include numerous very recent research results as well as open problems and conjectures. The book is written for researchers and graduate students in mathematics and physics who use singularity theory.

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V.I. Arnol’d, V.V. Goryunov, O.V. Lyashko, V.A. Vasil’ev, and V.I. Arnol’d (eds.)

Dynamical Systems VIII

"The book contains a huge amount of information from all the branches of Singularity Theory, presented in a very attractive way, with lots of inspiring pictures."

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