Invitations to geometry and topology

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Invitations to geometry and topology

edited by Martin R. Bridson and Simon M. Salamon

(Oxford graduate texts in mathematics, 7)

Oxford University Press, 2002

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Description and Table of Contents

Description

This volume presents an array of topics that introduce the reader to key ideas in active areas in geometry and topology. The material is presented in a way that both graduate students and researchers should find accessible and enticing. The topics covered range from Morse theory and complex geometry theory to geometric group theory, and are accompanied by exercises that are designed to deepen the reader's understanding and to guide them in exciting directions for future investigation. The editors, M.R. Bridson and S.M. Salamon, have each written an article and are accompanied by A.J. Berrick; M.C. Crabb and A.J.B Potter; M. Eastwood and J. Sawon; M.A. Guest; N.J. Hitchin and J.Seade.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • 1. A topologist's view of perfect and acyclic groups
  • 2. The geometry of the word problem
  • 3. The Fuller Index
  • 4. The Borel-Weil Theorem for Complex Projective Space
  • 5. Morse Theory in the 1990s
  • 6. The Dirac Operator
  • 7. Hermitian Geometry
  • 8. Indices of vector fields and Chern classes for singualr varieties
  • List of Research papers by Brian Steer
  • Index

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Details

  • NCID
    BA59432429
  • ISBN
    • 0198507720
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Oxford
  • Pages/Volumes
    327 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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