Topological Stability of Smooth Mappings

Topological Stability of Smooth Mappings
Author: C.G. Gibson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 170
Release: 1976-11
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN:

During the academic year 1974-75, the Department of Pure Mathematics in the University of Liverpool held a seminar on the topological stability of smooth mappings. The main objective was to piece together a complete proof of the topological stability theorem (conjectured by René Thom in 1960, and proved by John Mather in 1970) for which no published accounts existed. This volume comprises a write-up of the seminar by four of the participants. Any mathematician working in this area is conscious of a debt to the inventiveness of Thom, and to Mather for the technical work which placed much that was conjecture on firm mathematical foundations. The proof presented in these notes follows Thom's indications closely, and requires no more than some familiarity with differential topology and commutative algebra of the reader.

Topological Stability of Smooth Mappings

Topological Stability of Smooth Mappings
Author: C.G. Gibson
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2006-11-14
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3540379576

During the academic year 1974-75, the Department of Pure Mathematics in the University of Liverpool held a seminar on the topological stability of smooth mappings. The main objective was to piece together a complete proof of the topological stability theorem (conjectured by René Thom in 1960, and proved by John Mather in 1970) for which no published accounts existed. This volume comprises a write-up of the seminar by four of the participants. Any mathematician working in this area is conscious of a debt to the inventiveness of Thom, and to Mather for the technical work which placed much that was conjecture on firm mathematical foundations. The proof presented in these notes follows Thom's indications closely, and requires no more than some familiarity with differential topology and commutative algebra of the reader.

Encyclopaedia of Mathematics

Encyclopaedia of Mathematics
Author: Michiel Hazewinkel
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 549
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9401512353

This ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF MATHEMATICS aims to be a reference work for all parts of mathe matics. It is a translation with updates and editorial comments of the Soviet Mathematical Encyclopaedia published by 'Soviet Encyclopaedia Publishing House' in five volumes in 1977-1985. The annotated translation consists of ten volumes including a special index volume. There are three kinds of articles in this ENCYCLOPAEDIA. First of all there are survey-type articles dealing with the various main directions in mathematics (where a rather fine subdivi sion has been used). The main requirement for these articles has been that they should give a reasonably complete up-to-date account of the current state of affairs in these areas and that they should be maximally accessible. On the whole, these articles should be understandable to mathematics students in their first specialization years, to graduates from other mathematical areas and, depending on the specific subject, to specialists in other domains of science, en gineers and teachers of mathematics. These articles treat their material at a fairly general level and aim to give an idea of the kind of problems, techniques and concepts involved in the area in question. They also contain background and motivation rather than precise statements of precise theorems with detailed definitions and technical details on how to carry out proofs and constructions. The second kind of article, of medium length, contains more detailed concrete problems, results and techniques.

Synthetic Differential Topology

Synthetic Differential Topology
Author: Marta Bunge
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2018-03-29
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1108692206

This book formally introduces synthetic differential topology, a natural extension of the theory of synthetic differential geometry which captures classical concepts of differential geometry and topology by means of the rich categorical structure of a necessarily non-Boolean topos and of the systematic use of logical infinitesimal objects in it. Beginning with an introduction to those parts of topos theory and synthetic differential geometry necessary for the remainder, this clear and comprehensive text covers the general theory of synthetic differential topology and several applications of it to classical mathematics, including the calculus of variations, Mather's theorem, and Morse theory on the classification of singularities. The book represents the state of the art in synthetic differential topology and will be of interest to researchers in topos theory and to mathematicians interested in the categorical foundations of differential geometry and topology.

Handbook of Geometry and Topology of Singularities III

Handbook of Geometry and Topology of Singularities III
Author: José Luis Cisneros-Molina
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 822
Release: 2022-06-06
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3030957608

This is the third volume of the Handbook of Geometry and Topology of Singularities, a series which aims to provide an accessible account of the state of the art of the subject, its frontiers, and its interactions with other areas of research. This volume consists of ten chapters which provide an in-depth and reader-friendly survey of various important aspects of singularity theory. Some of these complement topics previously explored in volumes I and II, such as, for instance, Zariski’s equisingularity, the interplay between isolated complex surface singularities and 3-manifold theory, stratified Morse theory, constructible sheaves, the topology of the non-critical levels of holomorphic functions, and intersection cohomology. Other chapters bring in new subjects, such as the Thom–Mather theory for maps, characteristic classes for singular varieties, mixed Hodge structures, residues in complex analytic varieties, nearby and vanishing cycles, and more. Singularities are ubiquitous in mathematics and science in general. Singularity theory interacts energetically with the rest of mathematics, acting as a crucible where different types of mathematical problems interact, surprising connections are born and simple questions lead to ideas which resonate in other parts of the subject, and in other subjects. Authored by world experts, the various contributions deal with both classical material and modern developments, covering a wide range of topics which are linked to each other in fundamental ways. The book is addressed to graduate students and newcomers to the theory, as well as to specialists who can use it as a guidebook.

Nonlinear Optimization in Finite Dimensions

Nonlinear Optimization in Finite Dimensions
Author: Hubertus Th. Jongen
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 516
Release: 2013-12-11
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1461500176

At the heart of the topology of global optimization lies Morse Theory: The study of the behaviour of lower level sets of functions as the level varies. Roughly speaking, the topology of lower level sets only may change when passing a level which corresponds to a stationary point (or Karush-Kuhn Tucker point). We study elements of Morse Theory, both in the unconstrained and constrained case. Special attention is paid to the degree of differentiabil ity of the functions under consideration. The reader will become motivated to discuss the possible shapes and forms of functions that may possibly arise within a given problem framework. In a separate chapter we show how certain ideas may be carried over to nonsmooth items, such as problems of Chebyshev approximation type. We made this choice in order to show that a good under standing of regular smooth problems may lead to a straightforward treatment of "just" continuous problems by means of suitable perturbation techniques, taking a priori nonsmoothness into account. Moreover, we make a focal point analysis in order to emphasize the difference between inner product norms and, for example, the maximum norm. Then, specific tools from algebraic topol ogy, in particular homology theory, are treated in some detail. However, this development is carried out only as far as it is needed to understand the relation between critical points of a function on a manifold with structured boundary. Then, we pay attention to three important subjects in nonlinear optimization.

Real And Complex Singularities

Real And Complex Singularities
Author: David Mond
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2019-07-17
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9780203912089

This text offers a selection of papers on singularity theory presented at the Sixth Workshop on Real and Complex Singularities held at ICMC-USP, Brazil. It should help students and specialists to understand results that illustrate the connections between singularity theory and related fields. The authors discuss irreducible plane curve singularities, openness and multitransversality, the distribution Afs and the real asymptotic spectrum, deformations of boundary singularities and non-crystallographic coxeter groups, transversal Whitney topology and singularities of Haefliger foliations, the topology of hypersurface singularities, polar multiplicities and equisingularity of map germs from C3 to C4, and topological invariants of stable maps from a surface to the plane from a global viewpoint.

Topological Nonlinear Analysis

Topological Nonlinear Analysis
Author: Michele Matzeu
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 542
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1461225701

Topological tools in Nonlinear Analysis had a tremendous develop ment during the last few decades. The three main streams of research in this field, Topological Degree, Singularity Theory and Variational Meth ods, have lately become impetuous rivers of scientific investigation. The process is still going on and the achievements in this area are spectacular. A most promising and rapidly developing field of research is the study of the role that symmetries play in nonlinear problems. Symmetries appear in a quite natural way in many problems in physics and in differential or symplectic geometry, such as closed orbits for autonomous Hamiltonian systems, configurations of symmetric elastic plates under pressure, Hopf Bifurcation, Taylor vortices, convective motions of fluids, oscillations of chemical reactions, etc . . . Some of these problems have been tackled recently by different techniques using equivariant versions of Degree, Singularity and Variations. The main purpose of the present volume is to give a survey of some of the most significant achievements obtained by topological methods in Nonlinear Analysis during the last two-three decades. The survey articles presented here reflect the personal taste and points of view of the authors (all of them well-known and distinguished specialists in their own fields) on the subject matter. A common feature of these papers is that of start ing with an historical introductory background of the different disciplines under consideration and climbing up to the heights of the most recent re sults.