Matrix Groups

Matrix Groups
Author: Andrew Baker
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1447101839

This book offers a first taste of the theory of Lie groups, focusing mainly on matrix groups: closed subgroups of real and complex general linear groups. The first part studies examples and describes classical families of simply connected compact groups. The second section introduces the idea of a lie group and explores the associated notion of a homogeneous space using orbits of smooth actions. The emphasis throughout is on accessibility.

Matrix Groups for Undergraduates

Matrix Groups for Undergraduates
Author: Kristopher Tapp
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2016-04-07
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1470427222

Matrix groups touch an enormous spectrum of the mathematical arena. This textbook brings them into the undergraduate curriculum. It makes an excellent one-semester course for students familiar with linear and abstract algebra and prepares them for a graduate course on Lie groups. Matrix Groups for Undergraduates is concrete and example-driven, with geometric motivation and rigorous proofs. The story begins and ends with the rotations of a globe. In between, the author combines rigor and intuition to describe the basic objects of Lie theory: Lie algebras, matrix exponentiation, Lie brackets, maximal tori, homogeneous spaces, and roots. This second edition includes two new chapters that allow for an easier transition to the general theory of Lie groups.

Matrix Groups

Matrix Groups
Author: M. L. Curtis
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1984-11-01
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0387960740

These notes were developed from a course taught at Rice Univ- sity in the spring of 1976 and again at the University of Hawaii in the spring of 1977. It is assumed that the students know some linear algebra and a little about differentiation of vector-valued functions. The idea is to introduce students to some of the concepts of Lie group theory-- all done at the concrete level of matrix groups. As much as we could, we motivated developments as a means of deciding when two matrix groups (with different definitions) are isomorphic. In Chapter I "group" is defined and examples are given; ho- morphism and isomorphism are defined. For a field k denotes the algebra of n x n matrices over k We recall that A E Mn(k) has an inverse if and only if det A ~ 0 , and define the general linear group GL(n,k) We construct the skew-field lli of to operate linearly on llin quaternions and note that for A E Mn(lli) we must operate on the right (since we mUltiply a vector by a scalar n on the left). So we use row vectors for R , en, llin and write xA for the row vector obtained by matrix multiplication. We get a ~omplex-valued determinant function on Mn (11) such that det A ~ 0 guarantees that A has an inverse.

Lie Groups

Lie Groups
Author: Harriet Suzanne Katcher Pollatsek
Publisher: MAA
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2009-09-24
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9780883857595

This textbook is a complete introduction to Lie groups for undergraduate students. The only prerequisites are multi-variable calculus and linear algebra. The emphasis is placed on the algebraic ideas, with just enough analysis to define the tangent space and the differential and to make sense of the exponential map. This textbook works on the principle that students learn best when they are actively engaged. To this end nearly 200 problems are included in the text, ranging from the routine to the challenging level. Every chapter has a section called 'Putting the pieces together' in which all definitions and results are collected for reference and further reading is suggested.

The Random Matrix Theory of the Classical Compact Groups

The Random Matrix Theory of the Classical Compact Groups
Author: Elizabeth S. Meckes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2019-08-01
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1108317995

This is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of foundational results and recent progress in the study of random matrices from the classical compact groups, drawing on the subject's deep connections to geometry, analysis, algebra, physics, and statistics. The book sets a foundation with an introduction to the groups themselves and six different constructions of Haar measure. Classical and recent results are then presented in a digested, accessible form, including the following: results on the joint distributions of the entries; an extensive treatment of eigenvalue distributions, including the Weyl integration formula, moment formulae, and limit theorems and large deviations for the spectral measures; concentration of measure with applications both within random matrix theory and in high dimensional geometry; and results on characteristic polynomials with connections to the Riemann zeta function. This book will be a useful reference for researchers and an accessible introduction for students in related fields.

Matrix Groups

Matrix Groups
Author: Dmitriĭ Alekseevich Suprunenko
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1976
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9780821813416

This volume is a translation from the Russian of D.A. Suprunenko's book which was published in the Soviet Union in 1972. The translation was edited by K.A. Hirsch. The book gives an account of the classical results on the structure of normal subgroups of the general linear group over a division ring, of Burnside's and Schur's theorems on periodic linear groups, and of the theorem on the normal structure of SL(n, Z) for n >2. The theory of solvable, nilpotent, and locally nilpotent linear groups is also discussed.

Infinite Linear Groups

Infinite Linear Groups
Author: Bertram Wehrfritz
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3642870813

By a linear group we mean essentially a group of invertible matrices with entries in some commutative field. A phenomenon of the last twenty years or so has been the increasing use of properties of infinite linear groups in the theory of (abstract) groups, although the story of infinite linear groups as such goes back to the early years of this century with the work of Burnside and Schur particularly. Infinite linear groups arise in group theory in a number of contexts. One of the most common is via the automorphism groups of certain types of abelian groups, such as free abelian groups of finite rank, torsion-free abelian groups of finite rank and divisible abelian p-groups of finite rank. Following pioneering work of Mal'cev many authors have studied soluble groups satisfying various rank restrictions and their automor phism groups in this way, and properties of infinite linear groups now play the central role in the theory of these groups. It has recently been realized that the automorphism groups of certain finitely generated soluble (in particular finitely generated metabelian) groups contain significant factors isomorphic to groups of automorphisms of finitely generated modules over certain commutative Noetherian rings. The results of our Chapter 13, which studies such groups of automorphisms, can be used to give much information here.

The Theory of Group Characters and Matrix Representations of Groups

The Theory of Group Characters and Matrix Representations of Groups
Author: Dudley Ernest Littlewood
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2005
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0821840673

Originally written in 1940, this book remains a classical source on representations and characters of finite and compact groups. The book starts with necessary information about matrices, algebras, and groups. Then the author proceeds to representations of finite groups. Of particular interest in this part of the book are several chapters devoted to representations and characters of symmetric groups and the closely related theory of symmetric polynomials. The concluding chapters present the representation theory of classical compact Lie groups, including a detailed description of representations of the unitary and orthogonal groups. The book, which can be read with minimal prerequisites (an undergraduate algebra course), allows the reader to get a good understanding of beautiful classical results about group representations.

Matrix Groups

Matrix Groups
Author: M. L. Curtis
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1468400932

These notes were developed from a course taught at Rice Univ- sity in the spring of 1976 and again at the University of Hawaii in the spring of 1977. It is assumed that the students know some linear algebra and a little about differentiation of vector-valued functions. The idea is to introduce students to some of the concepts of Lie group theory--all done at the concrete level of matrix groups. As much as we could, we motivated developments as a means of deciding when two matrix groups (with different definitions) are isomorphie. In Chapter I "group" is defined and examples are given; ho- morphism and isomorphism are defined. For a field k denotes the algebra of n x n matrices over k We recall that A E Mn(k) has an inverse if and only if det A # 0 , and define the general linear group GL(n,k) We construct the skew-field E of quaternions and note that for A E Mn(E) to operate linearlyon Rn we must operate on the right (since we multiply a vector by a scalar n n on the left). So we use row vectors for Rn, c E and write xA , for the row vector obtained by matrix multiplication. We get a complex-valued determinant function on Mn (E) such that det A # 0 guarantees that A has an inverse.

Matrix Inequalities and Their Extensions to Lie Groups

Matrix Inequalities and Their Extensions to Lie Groups
Author: Tin-Yau Tam
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2018-03-14
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0429889283

Matrix Inequalities and Their Extensions to Lie Groups gives a systematic and updated account of recent important extensions of classical matrix results, especially matrix inequalities, in the context of Lie groups. It is the first systematic work in the area and will appeal to linear algebraists and Lie group researchers.