Geometry in a Fréchet Context

Geometry in a Fréchet Context
Author: C. T. J. Dodson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2016
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1316601951

A new approach to studying Fréchet geometry using projective limits of geometrical objects modelled on Banach spaces.

(Co)end Calculus

(Co)end Calculus
Author: Fosco Loregian
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2021-07-22
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1108746128

This easy-to-cite handbook gives the first systematic treatment of the (co)end calculus in category theory and its applications.

Invariance of Modules under Automorphisms of their Envelopes and Covers

Invariance of Modules under Automorphisms of their Envelopes and Covers
Author: Ashish K. Srivastava
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2021-03-18
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1108960162

The theory of invariance of modules under automorphisms of their envelopes and covers has opened up a whole new direction in the study of module theory. It offers a new perspective on generalizations of injective, pure-injective and flat-cotorsion modules beyond relaxing conditions on liftings of homomorphisms. This has set off a flurry of work in the area, with hundreds of papers using the theory appearing in the last decade. This book gives the first unified treatment of the topic. The authors are real experts in the area, having played a major part in the breakthrough of this new theory and its subsequent applications. The first chapter introduces the basics of ring and module theory needed for the following sections, making it self-contained and suitable for graduate students. The authors go on to develop and explain their tools, enabling researchers to employ them, extend and simplify known results in the literature and to solve longstanding problems in module theory, many of which are discussed at the end of the book.

Lectures on Orthogonal Polynomials and Special Functions

Lectures on Orthogonal Polynomials and Special Functions
Author: Howard S. Cohl
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2020-10-15
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1108905420

Written by experts in their respective fields, this collection of pedagogic surveys provides detailed insight and background into five separate areas at the forefront of modern research in orthogonal polynomials and special functions at a level suited to graduate students. A broad range of topics are introduced including exceptional orthogonal polynomials, q-series, applications of spectral theory to special functions, elliptic hypergeometric functions, and combinatorics of orthogonal polynomials. Exercises, examples and some open problems are provided. The volume is derived from lectures presented at the OPSF-S6 Summer School at the University of Maryland, and has been carefully edited to provide a coherent and consistent entry point for graduate students and newcomers.

Maurer–Cartan Methods in Deformation Theory

Maurer–Cartan Methods in Deformation Theory
Author: Vladimir Dotsenko
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2023-08-31
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1108965644

Covering an exceptional range of topics, this text provides a unique overview of the Maurer-Cartan methods in algebra, geometry, topology, and mathematical physics. It offers a new conceptual treatment of the twisting procedure, guiding the reader through various versions with the help of plentiful motivating examples for graduate students as well as researchers. Topics covered include a novel approach to the twisting procedure for operads leading to Kontsevich graph homology and a description of the twisting procedure for (homotopy) associative algebras or (homotopy) Lie algebras using the biggest deformation gauge group ever considered. The book concludes with concise surveys of recent applications in areas including higher category theory and deformation theory.

The Genesis of the Langlands Program

The Genesis of the Langlands Program
Author: Julia Mueller
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 452
Release: 2021-08-05
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1108619959

Robert Langlands formulated his celebrated conjectures, initiating the Langlands Program, at the age of 31, profoundly changing the landscape of mathematics. Langlands, recipient of the Abel Prize, is famous for his insight in discovering links among seemingly dissimilar objects, leading to astounding results. This book is uniquely designed to serve a wide range of mathematicians and advanced students, showcasing Langlands' unique creativity and guiding readers through the areas of Langlands' work that are generally regarded as technical and difficult to penetrate. Part 1 features non-technical personal reflections, including Langlands' own words describing how and why he was led to formulate his conjectures. Part 2 includes survey articles of Langlands' early work that led to his conjectures, and centers on his principle of functoriality and foundational work on the Eisenstein series, and is accessible to mathematicians from other fields. Part 3 describes some of Langlands' contributions to mathematical physics.

Constrained Willmore Surfaces

Constrained Willmore Surfaces
Author: Áurea Casinhas Quintino
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2021-06-10
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 110888220X

From Bäcklund to Darboux, this monograph presents a comprehensive journey through the transformation theory of constrained Willmore surfaces, a topic of great importance in modern differential geometry and, in particular, in the field of integrable systems in Riemannian geometry. The first book on this topic, it discusses in detail a spectral deformation, Bäcklund transformations and Darboux transformations, and proves that all these transformations preserve the existence of a conserved quantity, defining, in particular, transformations within the class of constant mean curvature surfaces in 3-dimensional space-forms, with, furthermore, preservation of both the space-form and the mean curvature, and bridging the gap between different approaches to the subject, classical and modern. Clearly written with extensive references, chapter introductions and self-contained accounts of the core topics, it is suitable for newcomers to the theory of constrained Wilmore surfaces. Many detailed computations and new results unavailable elsewhere in the literature make it also an appealing reference for experts.

Stacks Project Expository Collection

Stacks Project Expository Collection
Author: Pieter Belmans
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2022-09-30
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1009063286

The Stacks Project Expository Collection (SPEC) compiles expository articles in advanced algebraic geometry, intended to bring graduate students and researchers up to speed on recent developments in the geometry of algebraic spaces and algebraic stacks. The articles in the text make explicit in modern language many results, proofs, and examples that were previously only implicit, incomplete, or expressed in classical terms in the literature. Where applicable this is done by explicitly referring to the Stacks project for preliminary results. Topics include the construction and properties of important moduli problems in algebraic geometry (such as the Deligne–Mumford compactification of the moduli of curves, the Picard functor, or moduli of semistable vector bundles and sheaves), and arithmetic questions for fields and algebraic spaces.

Surveys in Combinatorics 2022

Surveys in Combinatorics 2022
Author: Anthony Nixon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2022-06-09
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1009096222

This volume contains surveys of current research directions in combinatorics written by leading researchers in their fields.

The Logical Approach to Automatic Sequences

The Logical Approach to Automatic Sequences
Author: Jeffrey Shallit
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2022-09-30
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1108786979

Automatic sequences are sequences over a finite alphabet generated by a finite-state machine. This book presents a novel viewpoint on automatic sequences, and more generally on combinatorics on words, by introducing a decision method through which many new results in combinatorics and number theory can be automatically proved or disproved with little or no human intervention. This approach to proving theorems is extremely powerful, allowing long and error-prone case-based arguments to be replaced by simple computations. Readers will learn how to phrase their desired results in first-order logic, using free software to automate the computation process. Results that normally require multipage proofs can emerge in milliseconds, allowing users to engage with mathematical questions that would otherwise be difficult to solve. With more than 150 exercises included, this text is an ideal resource for researchers, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates studying combinatorics, sequences, and number theory.