Projective Duality and Homogeneous Spaces
Projective Duality and Homogeneous Spaces

Author: Evgueni A. Tevelev

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2006-03-30

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 3540269576

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Projective duality is a very classical notion naturally arising in various areas of mathematics, such as algebraic and differential geometry, combinatorics, topology, analytical mechanics, and invariant theory, and the results in this field were until now scattered across the literature. Thus the appearance of a book specifically devoted to projective duality is a long-awaited and welcome event. Projective Duality and Homogeneous Spaces covers a vast and diverse range of topics in the field of dual varieties, ranging from differential geometry to Mori theory and from topology to the theory of algebras. It gives a very readable and thorough account and the presentation of the material is clear and convincing. For the most part of the book the only prerequisites are basic algebra and algebraic geometry. This book will be of great interest to graduate and postgraduate students as well as professional mathematicians working in algebra, geometry and analysis.

Projective Geometry
Projective Geometry

Author: Albrecht Beutelspacher

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1998-01-29

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9780521483643

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Projective geometry is not only a jewel of mathematics, but has also many applications in modern information and communication science. This book presents the foundations of classical projective and affine geometry as well as its important applications in coding theory and cryptography. It also could serve as a first acquaintance with diagram geometry. Written in clear and contemporary language with an entertaining style and around 200 exercises, examples and hints, this book is ideally suited to be used as a textbook for study in the classroom or on its own.

Surveys in Geometry and Number Theory
Surveys in Geometry and Number Theory

Author: Nicholas Young

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2007-01-18

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 0521691826

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A collection of survey articles by leading young researchers, showcasing the vitality of Russian mathematics.

Feature Extraction & Image Processing
Feature Extraction & Image Processing

Author: Mark Nixon

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2008-01-08

Total Pages: 423

ISBN-13: 0080556728

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Whilst other books cover a broad range of topics, Feature Extraction and Image Processing takes one of the prime targets of applied computer vision, feature extraction, and uses it to provide an essential guide to the implementation of image processing and computer vision techniques. Acting as both a source of reference and a student text, the book explains techniques and fundamentals in a clear and concise manner and helps readers to develop working techniques, with usable code provided throughout. The new edition is updated throughout in line with developments in the field, and is revised to focus on mathematical programming in Matlab. - Essential reading for engineers and students working in this cutting edge field - Ideal module text and background reference for courses in image processing and computer vision

Integrability, Self-duality, and Twistor Theory
Integrability, Self-duality, and Twistor Theory

Author: Lionel J. Mason

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 9780198534983

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Many of the familiar integrable systems of equations are symmetry reductions of self-duality equations on a metric or on a Yang-Mills connection. For example, the Korteweg-de Vries and non-linear Schrodinger equations are reductions of the self-dual Yang-Mills equation. This book explores in detail the connections between self-duality and integrability, and also the application of twistor techniques to integrable systems. It supports two central theories: that the symmetries of self-duality equations provide a natural classification scheme for integrable systems; and that twistor theory provides a uniform geometric framework for the study of Backlund transformations, the inverse scattering method, and other such general constructions of integrability theory. The book will be useful to researchers and graduate students in mathematical physics.

Real and Complex Singularities
Real and Complex Singularities

Author: Laurentiu Paunescu

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 475

ISBN-13: 9812706895

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The modern theory of singularities provides a unifying theme that runs through fields of mathematics as diverse as homological algebra and Hamiltonian systems. It is also an important point of reference in the development of a large part of contemporary algebra, geometry and analysis. Presented by internationally recognized experts, the collection of articles in this volume yields a significant cross-section of these developments. The wide range of surveys includes an authoritative treatment of the deformation theory of isolated complex singularities by prize-winning researcher K Miyajima. Graduate students and even ambitious undergraduates in mathematics will find many research ideas in this volume and non-experts in mathematics can have an overview of some classic and fundamental results in singularity theory. The explanations are detailed enough to capture the interest of the curious reader, and complete enough to provide the necessary background material needed to go further into the subject and explore the research literature.

Representation Theory, Mathematical Physics, and Integrable Systems
Representation Theory, Mathematical Physics, and Integrable Systems

Author: Anton Alekseev

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-02-05

Total Pages: 652

ISBN-13: 3030781488

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Over the course of his distinguished career, Nicolai Reshetikhin has made a number of groundbreaking contributions in several fields, including representation theory, integrable systems, and topology. The chapters in this volume – compiled on the occasion of his 60th birthday – are written by distinguished mathematicians and physicists and pay tribute to his many significant and lasting achievements. Covering the latest developments at the interface of noncommutative algebra, differential and algebraic geometry, and perspectives arising from physics, this volume explores topics such as the development of new and powerful knot invariants, new perspectives on enumerative geometry and string theory, and the introduction of cluster algebra and categorification techniques into a broad range of areas. Chapters will also cover novel applications of representation theory to random matrix theory, exactly solvable models in statistical mechanics, and integrable hierarchies. The recent progress in the mathematical and physicals aspects of deformation quantization and tensor categories is also addressed. Representation Theory, Mathematical Physics, and Integrable Systems will be of interest to a wide audience of mathematicians interested in these areas and the connections between them, ranging from graduate students to junior, mid-career, and senior researchers.

Quantum Groups and Noncommutative Spaces
Quantum Groups and Noncommutative Spaces

Author: Matilde Marcolli

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2010-11-02

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 3834898317

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This book is aimed at presenting different methods and perspectives in the theory of Quantum Groups, bridging between the algebraic, representation theoretic, analytic, and differential-geometric approaches. It also covers recent developments in Noncommutative Geometry, which have close relations to quantization and quantum group symmetries. The volume collects surveys by experts which originate from an acitvity at the Max-Planck-Institute for Mathematics in Bonn.

Algebraic Transformation Groups and Algebraic Varieties
Algebraic Transformation Groups and Algebraic Varieties

Author: Vladimir Leonidovich Popov

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-06-29

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 3662056526

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The book covers topics in the theory of algebraic transformation groups and algebraic varieties which are very much at the frontier of mathematical research.

The Geometry of Cubic Hypersurfaces
The Geometry of Cubic Hypersurfaces

Author: Daniel Huybrechts

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-06-30

Total Pages: 461

ISBN-13: 1009280007

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A detailed introduction to cubic hypersurfaces, applying diverse techniques to a central class of algebraic varieties.