Differential Geometry, Lie Groups, and Symmetric Spaces

Differential Geometry, Lie Groups, and Symmetric Spaces
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Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages : 682
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ISBN-10 : 9780821828489
ISBN-13 : 0821828487
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Book Synopsis Differential Geometry, Lie Groups, and Symmetric Spaces by : Sigurdur Helgason

Download or read book Differential Geometry, Lie Groups, and Symmetric Spaces written by Sigurdur Helgason and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2001-06-12 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A great book ... a necessary item in any mathematical library. --S. S. Chern, University of California A brilliant book: rigorous, tightly organized, and covering a vast amount of good mathematics. --Barrett O'Neill, University of California This is obviously a very valuable and well thought-out book on an important subject. --Andre Weil, Institute for Advanced Study The study of homogeneous spaces provides excellent insights into both differential geometry and Lie groups. In geometry, for instance, general theorems and properties will also hold for homogeneous spaces, and will usually be easier to understand and to prove in this setting. For Lie groups, a significant amount of analysis either begins with or reduces to analysis on homogeneous spaces, frequently on symmetric spaces. For many years and for many mathematicians, Sigurdur Helgason's classic Differential Geometry, Lie Groups, and Symmetric Spaces has been--and continues to be--the standard source for this material. Helgason begins with a concise, self-contained introduction to differential geometry. Next is a careful treatment of the foundations of the theory of Lie groups, presented in a manner that since 1962 has served as a model to a number of subsequent authors. This sets the stage for the introduction and study of symmetric spaces, which form the central part of the book. The text concludes with the classification of symmetric spaces by means of the Killing-Cartan classification of simple Lie algebras over $\mathbb{C}$ and Cartan's classification of simple Lie algebras over $\mathbb{R}$, following a method of Victor Kac. The excellent exposition is supplemented by extensive collections of useful exercises at the end of each chapter. All of the problems have either solutions or substantial hints, found at the back of the book. For this edition, the author has made corrections and added helpful notes and useful references. Sigurdur Helgason was awarded the Steele Prize for Differential Geometry, Lie Groups, and Symmetric Spaces and Groups and Geometric Analysis.

Geometric Analysis on Symmetric Spaces

Geometric Analysis on Symmetric Spaces
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Publisher : American Mathematical Society
Total Pages : 657
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ISBN-10 : 9781470479091
ISBN-13 : 1470479095
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Geometric Analysis on Symmetric Spaces by : Sigurdur Helgason

Download or read book Geometric Analysis on Symmetric Spaces written by Sigurdur Helgason and published by American Mathematical Society. This book was released on 2024-09-27 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives the first systematic exposition of geometric analysis on Riemannian symmetric spaces and its relationship to the representation theory of Lie groups. The book starts with modern integral geometry for double fibrations and treats several examples in detail. After discussing the theory of Radon transforms and Fourier transforms on symmetric spaces, inversion formulas, and range theorems, Helgason examines applications to invariant differential equations on symmetric spaces, existence theorems, and explicit solution formulas, particularly potential theory and wave equations. The canonical multitemporal wave equation on a symmetric space is included. The book concludes with a chapter on eigenspace representations?that is, representations on solution spaces of invariant differential equations. Known for his high-quality expositions, Helgason received the 1988 Steele Prize for his earlier books Differential Geometry, Lie Groups and Symmetric Spaces and Groups and Geometric Analysis. Containing exercises (with solutions) and references to further results, this revised edition would be suitable for advanced graduate courses in modern integral geometry, analysis on Lie groups, and representation theory of Lie groups.

Causal Symmetric Spaces

Causal Symmetric Spaces
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Publisher : Academic Press
Total Pages : 303
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ISBN-10 : 9780080528724
ISBN-13 : 0080528724
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Book Synopsis Causal Symmetric Spaces by : Gestur Olafsson

Download or read book Causal Symmetric Spaces written by Gestur Olafsson and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 1996-09-11 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended to introduce researchers and graduate students to the concepts of causal symmetric spaces. To date, results of recent studies considered standard by specialists have not been widely published. This book seeks to bring this information to students and researchers in geometry and analysis on causal symmetric spaces.Includes the newest results in harmonic analysis including Spherical functions on ordered symmetric space and the holmorphic discrete series and Hardy spaces on compactly casual symmetric spacesDeals with the infinitesimal situation, coverings of symmetric spaces, classification of causal symmetric pairs and invariant cone fieldsPresents basic geometric properties of semi-simple symmetric spacesIncludes appendices on Lie algebras and Lie groups, Bounded symmetric domains (Cayley transforms), Antiholomorphic Involutions on Bounded Domains and Para-Hermitian Symmetric Spaces

Geometric Analysis on Symmetric Spaces

Geometric Analysis on Symmetric Spaces
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Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages : 657
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ISBN-10 : 9780821845301
ISBN-13 : 0821845306
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Book Synopsis Geometric Analysis on Symmetric Spaces by : Phillip Griffiths

Download or read book Geometric Analysis on Symmetric Spaces written by Phillip Griffiths and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 1989 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book gives the first systematic exposition of geometric analysis on Riemannian symmetric spaces and its relationship to the representation theory of Lie groups. The book starts with modern integral geometry for double fibrations and treats several examples in detail. After discussing the theory of Radon transforms and Fourier transforms on symmetric spaces, inversion formulas, and range theorems, Helgason examines applications to invariant differential equations on symmetric spaces, existence theorems, and explicit solution formulas, particularly potential theory and wave equations. The canonical multitemporal wave equation on a symmetric space is included. The book concludes with a chapter on eigenspace representations - that is, representations on solution spaces of invariant differential equations."--BOOK JACKET.

Harmonic Analysis and Special Functions on Symmetric Spaces

Harmonic Analysis and Special Functions on Symmetric Spaces
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Publisher : Academic Press
Total Pages : 239
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ISBN-10 : 9780080533292
ISBN-13 : 0080533299
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Book Synopsis Harmonic Analysis and Special Functions on Symmetric Spaces by : Gerrit Heckman

Download or read book Harmonic Analysis and Special Functions on Symmetric Spaces written by Gerrit Heckman and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 1995-02-08 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two parts of this sharply focused book, Hypergeometric and Special Functions and Harmonic Analysis on Semisimple Symmetric Spaces, are derived from lecture notes for the European School of Group Theory, a forum providing high-level courses on recent developments in group theory. The authors provide students and researchers with a thorough and thoughtful overview, elaborating on the topic with clear statements of definitions and theorems and augmenting these withtime-saving examples. An extensive set of notes supplements the text.Heckman and Schlichtkrull extend the ideas of harmonic analysis on semisimple symmetric spaces to embrace the theory of hypergeometric and spherical functions and show that the K-variant Eisenstein integrals for G/H are hypergeometric functions under this theory. They lead readers from the fundamentals of semisimple symmetric spaces of G/H to the frontier, including generalization, to the Riemannian case. This volume will interest harmonic analysts, those working on or applying the theory of symmetric spaces; it will also appeal to those with an interest in special functions.Extends ideas of harmonic analysis on symmetric spacesFirst treatment of the theory to include hypergeometric and spherical functionsLinks algebraic, analytic, and geometric methods

Differential Geometry and Symmetric Spaces

Differential Geometry and Symmetric Spaces
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Publisher : Academic Press
Total Pages : 501
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ISBN-10 : 9780080873244
ISBN-13 : 0080873243
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Book Synopsis Differential Geometry and Symmetric Spaces by :

Download or read book Differential Geometry and Symmetric Spaces written by and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 1962-01-01 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Differential Geometry and Symmetric Spaces

Groups and Geometric Analysis

Groups and Geometric Analysis
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Publisher : American Mathematical Society
Total Pages : 667
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ISBN-10 : 9780821832110
ISBN-13 : 0821832115
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Book Synopsis Groups and Geometric Analysis by : Sigurdur Helgason

Download or read book Groups and Geometric Analysis written by Sigurdur Helgason and published by American Mathematical Society. This book was released on 2022-03-17 with total page 667 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Group-theoretic methods have taken an increasingly prominent role in analysis. Some of this change has been due to the writings of Sigurdur Helgason. This book is an introduction to such methods on spaces with symmetry given by the action of a Lie group. The introductory chapter is a self-contained account of the analysis on surfaces of constant curvature. Later chapters cover general cases of the Radon transform, spherical functions, invariant operators, compact symmetric spaces and other topics. This book, together with its companion volume, Geometric Analysis on Symmetric Spaces (AMS Mathematical Surveys and Monographs series, vol. 39, 1994), has become the standard text for this approach to geometric analysis. Sigurdur Helgason was awarded the Steele Prize for outstanding mathematical exposition for Groups and Geometric Analysis and Differential Geometry, Lie Groups and Symmetric Spaces.