Reflection Groups and Coxeter Groups - Couverture souple

Humphreys, James E.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0521436133 ISBN 13 : 9780521436137

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1992

Synopsis

This graduate textbook presents a concrete and up-to-date introduction to the theory of Coxeter groups. The book is self-contained, making it suitable either for courses and seminars or for self-study. The first part is devoted to establishing concrete examples. Finite reflection groups acting on Euclidean spaces are discussed, and the first part ends with the construction of the affine Weyl groups, a class of Coxeter groups that plays a major role in Lie theory. The second part (which is logically independent of, but motivated by, the first) develops from scratch the properties of Coxeter groups in general, including the Bruhat ordering and the seminal work of Kazhdan and Lusztig on representations of Hecke algebras associated with Coxeter groups is introduced. Finally a number of interesting complementary topics as well as connections with Lie theory are sketched. The book concludes with an extensive bibliography on Coxeter groups and their applications.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

James E. Humphreys was born in Erie, Pennsylvania, and received his A.B. from Oberlin College, 1961, and his Ph.D. from Yale University, 1966. He has taught at the University of Oregon, Courant Institute (NYU), and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (now retired). He visits IAS Princeton, Rutgers. He is the author of several graduate texts and monographs.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0521436133
• ISBN 13: 9780521436137
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 216
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible