Unity of Mathematics

In Honor of the Ninetieth Birthday of I.M. Gelfand

AvPavel Etingof,Vladimir S. Retakh

Inbunden, Engelska, 2005

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Beskrivning

(Very preliminary)A tribute to the vision and legacy of Israel Gelfand, the invited papers in this volume reflect the unity of mathematics as a whole, with particular emphasis on the many connections among the fields of geometry, physics, and representation theory. Written by leading mathematicians, the text is broadly divided into two sections: the first is devoted to developments at the intersection of geometry and physics, and the second to representation theory and algebraic geometry. Topics include conformal field theory, K-theory, noncommutative geometry, gauge theory, representations of infinite-dimensional Lie algebras, and various aspects of the Langlands program. Graduate students and researchers will benefit from and find inspiration in this broad and unique work, which brings together fundamental results in a number of disciplines and highlights the rewards of an interdisciplinary approach to mathematics and physics.Contributors: M. Atiyah, A. Beilinson, J. Bernstein, A. Connes, P. Deligne, R. Dijkgraaf, D. Gaitsgory, M. Gromov, F. Hirzebruch, M. Hopkins, D. Kazhdan, F. Kirwan, M. Kontsevich, B. Kostant, G. Lusztig, D. McDuff, H. Nakajima, S. Novikov, P. Sarnak, A.Schwartz, I. Singer, R. Taylor, C. Vafa, A. Vershik, E. Witten.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2005-11-15
Mått:155 x 235 x 35 mm
Vikt:1 247 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Progress in Mathematics
Antal sidor:632
Upplaga:2006
Förlag:Birkhauser Boston Inc
ISBN:9780817640767

Utforska kategorier

Matematik inom Naturvetenskap och teknik

Recensioner i media

"This book is a unique and wonderful collection of papers presented at a conference honoring one of the most productive, influential and still young mathematicians of the 20th century, I. M. Gelfand. As the title suggests, the articles refer to the connections between several fields: geometry, physics, representation theory, algebraic geometry... The authors of the papers are some of the best mathematicians of present day...[and] most of them emphasize the crucial contribution that Gelfand's work had in many different ways... [T]he papers are unique, very deep and very well written. Mathematicians and graduate students will find lots of connections, ideas and inspiration in this wonderful collection of papers." -MAA

Innehållsförteckning

The Interaction between Geometry and Physics.- Uhlenbeck Spaces via Affine Lie Algebras.- New Questions Related to the Topological Degree.- Quantum Cobordisms and Formal Group Laws.- On the Foundations of Noncommutative Geometry.- Stable Distributions Supported on the Nilpotent Cone for the Group G 2.- Infinite-Dimensional Vector Bundles in Algebraic Geometry.- Algebraic Lessons from the Theory of Quantum Integrable Models.- Affine Structures and Non-Archimedean Analytic Spaces.- Gelfand-Zeitlin Theory from the Perspective of Classical Mechanics. II.- Mirror Symmetry and Localizations.- Character Sheaves and Generalizations.- Symplectomorphism Groups and Quantum Cohomology.- Algebraic Structure of Yang-Mills Theory.- Seiberg-Witten Theory and Random Partitions.- Quantum Calabi-Yau and Classical Crystals.- Gelfand-Tsetlin Algebras, Expectations, Inverse Limits, Fourier Analysis.