An Alternative Approach to Lie Groups and Geometric Structures

ISBN-13: 9780198821656 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 228 str.

Ercument Ortacgil

Opis

The theory of Lie groups is one of the most important mathematical themes of the last century and belongs to the centre of modern differential geometry. Whilst the subject is well established, this book aims to be the first to approach geometric theory of Lie groups from a new perspective.

Recenzje

In this very nice and unusual book, the author proposes an alternative approach to the theory of Lie groups, together with some applications and generalization of it. The approach proposed is inspired by the geometric theory of partial differential equations (PDEs) and Lie pseudogroups. In this respect, it is much closer in spirit to the original works of Lie and Klein than the current modern theory...The book is suitable for students at a master's level.

O autorze

Professor Ercüment Ortaçgil received his PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1985, and then returned home to Turkey to join the mathematics department at Bogazici University, Istanbul. He retired in 2011, and set his mind to the writing this book to inspire further research on the seemingly elementary problems that have enamoured him throughout his career.