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Loop groups

By Andrew Pressley and Graeme Segal.

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
1986
ISBN
019853535X, 9780198535355
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
3 MB (3080351 bytes)
Series
Oxford mathematical monographs
Pages
330\330
DPI
600
Time added
2014-02-22 13:32:33

Description

Loop groups, the simplest class of infinite dimensional Lie groups, have recently been the subject of intense study. This book gives a complete and self-contained account of what is known about them from a geometrical and analytical point of view, drawing together the many branches of mathematics from which current theory developed--algebra, geometry, analysis, combinatorics, and the mathematics of quantum field theory. The authors discuss Loop groups' applications to simple particle physics and explain how the mathematics used in connection with Loop groups is itself interesting and valuable, thereby making this work accessible to mathematicians in many fields.

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