Manifolds over complete nonarchimedean fields together with notions like tangent spaces and vector fields form a convenient geometric language to express the basic formalism of p-adic analysis. The volume starts with a self-contained and detailed introduction to this language. This includes the discussion of spaces of locally analytic functions as topological vector spaces, important for applications in representation theory. The author then sets up the analytic foundations of the theory of p-adic Lie groups and develops the relation between p-adic Lie groups and their Lie algebras. The...

Wer nach der "Bildung der Psychoanalyse" fragt, muss sich mit der Erzeugung, Etablierung und Tradierung der Psychoanalyse in Formen und Praxis ihrer Vermittlung auseinandersetzen. Wichtige Instrumente dafur liefern insbesondere in den Sozial- und Kulturwissenschaften entwickelte Handlungs- und Praxistheorien, die fur den psychotherapeutischen Bereich bislang wenig erschlossen und fruchtbar gemacht worden sind. Ebenso wertvoll fur eine gute Programmatik theoriebasierter psychotherapeutischer - nicht nur psychoanalytischer - Praxis sind Lehr- und Lernformen der Kunst sowie Vermittlungsformen,...

The theory, observations, and applications ofgravitational lensingconstitute one ofthe most rapidly growing branches ofextragalactic astrophysics. The deflection of light from very distant sources by intervening masses provides a unique possibility for the investigation of both background sources and lens mass distributions. Gravitational lensing manifestsitselfmost distinctly through multiply imaged QSOs and the formation of highly elongated im- ages of distant galaxies ('arcs') and spectacular ring-like images of extra- galactic radio sources. But the effects of gravitational light...