Definitions and Notations -- Density Problems for Packings and Coverings -- Structural Packing and Covering Problems -- Packing and Covering with Homothetic Copies -- Tiling Problems -- Distance Problems -- Problems on Repeated Subconfigurations -- Incidence and Arrangement Problems -- Problems on Points in General Position -- Graph Drawings and Geometric Graphs -- Lattice Point Problems -- Geo…
Inroduction -- Rogers-Ramanujan Continued Fraction and Its Modular Properties -- Explicit Evaluations of the Rogers-Ramanujan Continued Fraction -- A Fragment on the Rogers-Ramanujan and Cubic Continued Fractions -- The Rogers-Ramanujan Continued Fraction and Its Connections with Partitions and Lambert Series -- Finite Rogers-Ramanujan Continued Fractions -- Other q-continued Fractions -- Asymp…
to Projective Duality -- Actions with Finitely Many Orbits -- Local Calculations -- Projective Constructions -- Vector Bundles Methods -- Degree of the Dual Variety -- Varieties with Positive Defect -- Dual Varieties of Homogeneous Spaces -- Self-dual Varieties -- Singularities of Dual Varieties.Projective duality is a very classical notion naturally arising in various areas of mathematics, suc…
Supplementary Thoughts on Symplectic Groups -- Automorphisms of the Modular Curve -- Reducing the Fontaine-Mazur Conjecture to Group Theory -- Relating Two Genus 0 Problems of John Thompson -- Relatively Projective Groups as Absolute Galois Groups -- Invariants of Binary Forms -- Some Classical Views on the Parameters of the Grothendieck-Teichmüller Group -- The Image of a Hurwitz Space Under …
Arithmetic over Function Fields: A Cohomological Approach -- Algebraic Stacks Whose Number of Points over Finite Fields is a Polynomial -- On a Problem of Miyaoka -- Monodromy Groups Associated to Non-Isotrivial Drinfeld Modules in Generic Characteristic -- Irreducible Values of Polynomials: A Non-Analogy -- Schemes over -- Line Bundles and p-Adic Characters -- Arithmetic Eisenstein Classes on…
Notations and Conventions -- Groups Acting on Lattices -- Permutation Lattices and Flasque Equivalence -- Multiplicative Actions -- Class Group -- Picard Group -- Multiplicative Invariants of Reflection Groups -- Regularity -- The Cohen-Macaulay Property -- Multiplicative Invariant Fields -- Problems.Multiplicative invariant theory, as a research area in its own right within the wider spectrum …
Squares -- Numbers, Numbers Everywhere -- Fibonacci Numbers -- Prime Numbers -- Choice and Chance -- Geometrical Constructions -- The Algebra of Group.Mathematics Is Not a Spectator Sport challenges the reader to become an active mathematician. Beginning at a gentle pace, the author encourages the reader to get involved, with discussions of an exciting variety of topics, each placed in its hist…
Three-Dimensional Differential Geometry -- Differential Geometry of Surfaces -- Applications to Three-Dimensional Elasticity in Curvilinear Coordinates -- Applications to Shell Theory.curvilinear coordinates. This treatment includes in particular a direct proof of the three-dimensional Korn inequality in curvilinear coordinates. The fourth and last chapter, which heavily relies on Chapter 2, be…
Background -- Algebraic Monoids -- Regularity Conditions -- Classification of Reductive Monoids -- Universal Constructions -- Orbit Structure of Reductive Monoids -- The Analogue of the Bruhat Decomposition -- Representations and Blocks of Algebraic Monoids -- Monoids of Lie Type -- Cellular Decomposition of Algebraic Monoids -- Conjugacy Classes -- The Centralizer of a Semisimple Element -- Co…
to Symmetric Spaces and Their Compactifications -- Compactifications of Symmetric and Locally Symmetric Spaces -- Restrictions of Unitary Representations of Real Reductive Groups.Semisimple Lie groups, and their algebraic analogues over fields other than the reals, are of fundamental importance in geometry, analysis, and mathematical physics. Three independent, self-contained volumes, under the…