Books in the London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series series

This is a collection of graduate-level introductions to five areas of current research interest in orthogonal polynomials and special functions. It derives from the OPSF-S6 Summer School lectures given by international authorities and has been carefully edited into a coherent whole, with examples and exercises.

Using modern methods from computational group theory and representation theory, this book addresses a classical topic in the theory of complex functions. It is suitable for graduate students and researchers.

Showcasing the achievements of young Russian researchers in mathematics, this book contains a substantial number of new results. Topics covered include algebraic geometry over Lie groups, cohomology of face rings, the Borsuk partition problem, embedding and knotting of manifolds in Euclidean spaces, and Maxwellian and Botzmann distributions.

This volume arises from the 2017 edition of the long-running 'Groups St Andrews' conference series and consists of expository papers from leading researchers in all areas of group theory. It provides a snapshot of the state-of-the-art in the field, and it will be a valuable resource for researchers and graduate students.

This collection of expository articles provides an overview of the major renaissance happening today in the study of locally compact groups and their many connections to other areas of mathematics, including geometric group theory, measured group theory and rigidity of lattices. For researchers and graduate students.

An in-depth coverage of selected areas of graph theory, focusing on symmetry properties of graphs. This second edition expands on several topics found in the first and is ideal for students wishing to learn the basic concepts. The broad collection of results provided also makes this book valuable to researchers.

This volume provides a systematic presentation of the theory of differential tensor algebras and their categories of modules. It involves reduction techniques which have proved to be very useful in the development of representation theory of finite dimensional algebras. The main results obtained with these methods are presented in an elementary and self contained way. The authors provide a fresh point of view of well known facts on tame and wild differential tensor algebras, on tame and wild algebras, and on their modules. But there are also some new results and some new proofs. Their approach presents a formal alternative to the use of bocses (bimodules over categories with coalgebra structure) with underlying additive categories and pull-back reduction constructions. Professional mathematicians working in representation theory and related fields, and graduate students interested in homological algebra will find much of interest in this book.

Presenting papers by researchers in transcendental complex dynamics and complex analysis, this book is written in honour of Noel Baker, a leading exponent of transcendental dynamics. The papers describe the state of the art in this subject, with many new results and comprehensive survey articles. This book is essential reading for students and researchers in complex dynamics and complex analysis.

The work of Hermann Weyl has had a lasting influence on areas of mathematics such as topological groups, Lie groups and representation theory, harmonic analysis, and on the foundations of mathematics itself. In this volume leading experts outline the connections between Weyl's theorems and up-to-date results in many contemporary topics.

An international conference on complex analysis was held in Canterbury in July 1973. Some of the world's most prominent complex analysts attended and some outstanding open problems had their first solutions announced there. These are reflected in this set of Proceedings. Almost all of the contributions are abstracts of talks given at the symposium.

This is the first book on the subject of FPF rings and the systematic use of the notion of the generator of the category mod-R of all right R-modules and its relationship to faithful modules. This carries out the program, explicit of inherent, in the work of G Azumaya, H. Bass, R. Dedekind, S. Endo, I. Kaplansky, K. Morita, T. Nakayama, R. Thrall, and more recently, W. Brandal, R. Pierce, T. Shores, R. and S. Wiegand and P. Vamos, among others. FPF rings include quasi-Frobenius rings (and thus finite rings over fields), pseudo-Frobenius (PF) rings (and thus injective cogenerator rings), bounded Dedekind prime rings and the following commutative rings; self-injective rings, Prufer rings, all rings over which every finitely generated module decomposes into a direct sum of cyclic modules (=FGC rings), and hence almost maximal valuation rings. Any product (finite or infinite) of commutative or self-basic PFP rings is FPF. A number of important classes of FPF rings are completely characterised including semiprime Neotherian, semiperfect Neotherian, perfect nonsingular prime, regular and self-injective rings. Finite group rings over PF or commutative injective rings are FPF. This work is the culmination of a decade of research and writing by the authors and includes all known theorems on the subject of noncommutative FPF rings. This book will be of interest to professional mathematicians, especially those with an interest in noncommutative ring theory and module theory.

This volume contains expositions of many breakthroughs in Kleinian groups and hyperbolic 3-manifolds including Jorgensen's famous paper 'On pairs of once punctured tori'. Graduate students will find much here to inspire them, while established researchers will value this as a snapshot of current research.

This book presents a detailed mathematical analysis of scattering theory, obtains soliton solutions, and analyzes soliton interactions, both scalar and vector.

This book contains twenty articles by leading experts in the field, covering many aspects of group theory and its applications. It is the proceedings of the 10th anniversary conference of the publication of the Atlas.

J. Frank Adams had a profound influence on algebraic topology, and his works continue to shape its development. The International Symposium on Algebraic Topology held in Manchester during July 1990 was dedicated to his memory, and virtually all of the world's leading experts took part.

This is an introduction to geometrical topics that are useful in applied mathematics and theoretical physics, including manifolds, metrics, connections, Lie groups, spinors and bundles, preparing readers for the study of modern treatments of mechanics, gauge fields theories, relativity and gravitation. The order of presentation corresponds to that used for the relevant material in theoretical physics: the geometry of affine spaces, which is appropriate to special relativity theory, as well as to Newtonian mechanics, is developed in the first half of the book, and the geometry of manifolds, which is needed for general relativity and gauge field theory, in the second half. Analysis is included not for its own sake, but only where it illuminates geometrical ideas. The style is informal and clear yet rigorous; each chapter ends with a summary of important concepts and results. In addition there are over 650 exercises, making this a book which is valuable as a text for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students.

This book contains a collection of survey papers by leading researchers in ergodic theory, low-dimensional and topological dynamics and it comprises nine chapters on a range of important topics.

This two-volume book contains selected papers from the international conference 'Groups 1993 Galway/St Andrews' which was held at University College, Galway in August 1993. The wealth and diversity of group theory is represented in these two volumes. Five main lecture courses were given at the conference. These were 'Geometry, Steinberg representations and complexity' by J. L. Alperin (Chicago), 'Rickard equivalences and block theory' by M. Broue (ENS, Paris), 'Cohomological finiteness conditions', by P. H. Kropholler (Queen Mary and Westfield College, London), 'Counting finite index subgroups', by A. Lubotzky (Hebrew University, Jerusalem), 'Lie methods in group theory' by E. I. Zel'manov (University of Wisconsin at Madison). Articles based on their lectures, in one case co-authored, form a substantial part of the Proceedings. Another main feature of the conference was a GAP workshop jointly run by J. Neubuser and M. Schonert (Rheinisch-Westfalische Technische Hochschole, Aachen). Two articles by Professor Neubuser, one co-authored, appear in the Proceedings. The other articles in the two volumes comprise both refereed survey and research articles contributed by other conference participants. As with the Proceedings of the earlier 'Groups-St Andrews' conferences it is hoped that the articles in these Proceedings will, with their many references, prove valuable both to experienced researchers and also to new postgraduates interested in group theory.

These notes derive from a course of lectures delivered at the University of Florida in Gainesville during 1971/2. Dr Gagen presents a simplified treatment of recent work by H. Bender on the classification of non-soluble groups with abelian Sylow 2-subgroups, together with some background material of wide interest. The book is for research students and specialists in group theory and allied subjects such as finite geometries.

This volume is a record of the papers presented to the fourth British Combinatorial Conference held in Aberystwyth in July 1973. Contributors from all over the world took part and the result is a very useful and up-to-date account of what is happening in the field of combinatorics. A section of problems illustrates some of the topics in need of further investigation.

This is an introduction to non-commutative geometry, with special emphasis on those cases where the structure algebra, which defines the geometry, is an algebra of matrices over the complex numbers. Applications to elementary particle physics are also discussed. This second edition is thoroughly revised and includes new material on reality conditions and linear connections plus examples from Jordanian deformations and quantum Euclidean spaces. Only some familiarity with ordinary differential geometry and the theory of fibre bundles is assumed, making this book accessible to graduate students and newcomers to this field.

Numerical Ranges II is a sequel to Numerical Ranges of Operators on Normed Spaces and of Elements of Normed Algebras written by the same authors and published in this series in 1971. The present volume reflects the progress made in the subject, expanding and discussing topics under the general headings of spatial and algebra numerical ranges and further ranges.

The theory of the numerical range of a linear operator on an arbitrary normed space had its beginnings around 1960, and during the 1970s the subject has developed and expanded rapidly. This book presents a self-contained exposition of the subject as a whole. The authors develop various applications, in particular to the study of Banach algebras where the numerical range provides an important link between the algebraic and metric structures.

These notes constitute a faithful record of a short course of lectures given in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in the summer of 1968. The audience was assumed to be familiar with the basic material of homology and homotopy theory, and the object of the course was to explain the methodology of general cohomology theory and to give applications of K-theory to familiar problems such as that of the existence of real division algebras. The audience was not assumed to be sophisticated in homological algebra, so one chapter is devoted to an elementary exposition of exact couples and spectral sequences.

This book, first published in 2001, is a concise introduction to analysis on manifolds focusing on functional inequalities and their applications to the solution of the heat diffusion equation. It gives a detailed treatment of recent advances and would be suitable for use as an advanced graduate textbook, as well as a reference for graduates and researchers.

For anyone whose interest lies in the interplay between groups and geometry, these books will be an essential addition to their library.

The role of representation theory in algebra is an important one and in this book Manz and Wolf concentrate on that part of the theory which relates to solvable groups. Researchers into group theory, representation theory, or both, will find that this book has much to offer.

This is a clear, accessible and up-to-date exposition of modular representation theory of finite groups from a character-theoretic viewpoint. It is aimed at graduate students, with previous knowledge of ordinary character theory, and researchers interested in the representation theory of finite groups.

A mixture of surveys and original articles that span the theory of Zd actions.

There is now a large body of theory concerning algebraic varieties over finite fields, and many conjectures exist in this area that are of great interest to researchers in number theory and algebraic geometry. This book is concerned with the arithmetic of diagonal hypersurfaces over finite fields, with special focus on the Tate conjecture and the Lichtenbaum-Milne formula for the central value of the L-function. It combines theoretical and numerical work, and includes tables of Picard numbers. Although this book is aimed at experts, the authors have included some background material to help non-specialists gain access to the results.