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Rational homotopy is a very powerful tool for differential topology and geometry. This text aims to provide graduates and researchers with the tools necessary for the use of rational homotopy in geometry. Algebraic Models in Geometry has been written for topologists who...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2008-03-13
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This edited collection of chapters, authored by leading experts, provides a complete and essentially self-contained construction of 3-fold and 4-fold klt flips. A large part of the text is a digest of Shokurov's work in the field and a concise, complete and pedagogical...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2007-06-28
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This unique reference, aimed at research topologists, gives an exposition of the 'pseudo-Anosov' theory of foliations of 3-manifolds.This theory generalizes Thurston's theory of surface automorphisms and reveals an intimate connection between dynamics, geometry and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2007-05-17
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This graduate level text covers an exciting and active area of research at the crossroads of several different fields in Mathematics and Physics. In Mathematics it involves Differential Geometry, Complex Algebraic Geometry, Symplectic Geometry, and in Physics String...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2007-02-22
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Poisson manifolds play a fundamental role in Hamiltonian dynamics, where they serve as phase spaces. They also arise naturally in other mathematical problems, and form a bridge from the "commutative world" to the "noncommutative world". The aim of this book is twofold:...
Editeur :
Birkhäuser
Parution :
2006-01-17
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This book is an introduction to surgery theory: the standard classification method for high-dimensional manifolds. It is aimed at graduate students who have already had a basic topology course, and would now like to understand the topology of high-dimensional manifolds....
Editeur :
Clarendon Press
Parution :
2002-09-26
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Optimal Solution of Nonlinear Equations is a text/monograph designed to provide an overview of optimal computational methods for the solution of nonlinear equations, fixed points of contractive and noncontractive mapping, and for the computation of the topological...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2001-01-18
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