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Perspectives in mathematical sciences. II, Pure mathematics /

This book presents a collection of invited articles by distinguished Mathematicians on the occasion of the Platinum Jubilee Celebrations of the Indian Statistical Institute, during the year 2007. These articles provide a current perspective of different areas of research, emphasizing the major chall...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Narasimha Sastry, N. S.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific, ©2009.
Colección:Statistical science and interdisciplinary research ; v. 8.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Foreword; Preface; 1. Use of Resultants and Approximate Roots for Doing the Jacobian Problem S.S. Abhyankar; 1.1. Introduction; 1.2. Basic Technique; 1.3. Resultants and Discriminants; 1.4. Real Numbers and Approximate Roots; Epilogue; References; 2. Monodromy of Principal Bundles I. Biswas and A.J. Parameswaran; 2.1. Introduction; 2.2. Tannakian Category; 2.3. A Tannakian Category for a Pointed Curve; 2.4. Monodromy of a Strongly Semistable Principal Bundles; 2.5. More on Monodromy; 2.6. Bundles on Higher Dimensional Varieties; References
  • 3. Oligomorphic Permutation Groups P.J. Cameron3.1. Introduction; 3.1.1. Permutation groups; 3.1.2. Oligomorphic permutation groups; 3.1.3. Topology; 3.1.4. Cycle index; 3.2. Connections; 3.2.1. Model theory; 3.2.2. Combinatorial enumeration; 3.3. Constructions; 3.3.1. Direct and wreath products; 3.3.2. Other examples; 3.4. Growth Rates; 3.5. Graded Algebras; 3.6. Group Structure; References; 4. Descriptive Set Theory and the Geometry of Banach Spaces G. Godefroy; 4.1. Introduction; 4.2. A Short Survey on Analytic Sets; 4.3. Bossard's Coding of Separable Banach Spaces; 4.4. Coanalytic Ranks
  • 4.5. A New Direction: The Converse StatementsAcknowledgment; References; 5. Multiplicity-Free Homogeneous Operators in the Cowen- Douglas Class A. Korányi and G. Misra; 5.1. Background Material; 5.2. Computation of the Multipliers for the Unit Disc; 5.3. Conditions Imposed by the Reproducing Kernel; 5.4. The Multiplicity-Free Case; 5.5. Examples; References; 6. The Standard Conjectures on Algebraic Cycles M.S. Narasimhan; 6.1. The Case of Complex Projective Varieties; 6.2. Standard Conjectures in Abstract Algebraic Geometry; References
  • 7. On the Classification of Binary Shifts on the Hyperfinite II 1 Factor G.L. Price7.1. Introduction; 7.2. Preliminaries; 7.3. Bitstreams and Polynomials; 7.4. Counting Polynomials with Symmetry; 7.5. Conjugacy Classes of Binary Shifts; References; 8. Symmetric and Quasi-Symmetric Designs and Strongly Regular Graphs S.S. Sane; 8.1. Introduction and Preliminaries; 8.2. Symmetric Designs; 8.3. Strongly Regular Graphs; 8.4. Quasi-Symmetric Designs; Acknowledgments; References; 9. Perturbation Determinant, Krein's Shift Function and Index Theorem K.B. Sinha; 9.1. Introduction
  • 9.2. Perturbation Determinant9.3. Witten Index and Its Invariance; 9.4. Krein's Shift Function; 9.5. Application to Quantum Mechanics and Generalized Levinson's Theorem; References; 10. Zero Cycles and Complete Intersection Points on A.ne Varieties V. Srinivas; References; 11. Root Numbers and Rational Points on Elliptic Curves R. Sujatha; 11.1. Elliptic Curves and the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture; 11.2. Congruent Number Problem; 11.3. Root Numbers and the Parity Conjecture; 11.4. Recent Results; 11.5. Examples and Applications; References