Scissors Congruences, Group Homology and Characteristic Classes - Couverture rigide

Dupont, Johan L

 
9789810245078: Scissors Congruences, Group Homology and Characteristic Classes
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 9810245076 ISBN 13 : 9789810245078
Editeur : World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, 2001

Synopsis

These lecture notes are based on a series of lectures given at the Nankai Institute of Mathematics in the fall of 1998. They provide an overview of the work of the author and the late Chih-Han Sah on various aspects of Hilbert's Third Problem: Are two Euclidean polyhedra with the same volume "scissors-congruent", i.e. can they be subdivided into finitely many pairwise congruent pieces? The book starts from the classical solution of this problem by M Dehn. But generalization to higher dimensions and other geometries quickly leads to a great variety of mathematical topics, such as homology of groups, algebraic K-theory, characteristic classes for flat bundles, and invariants for hyperbolic manifolds. Some of the material, particularly in the chapters on projective configurations, is published here for the first time.

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Éditeur
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Date d'édition
2001
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9810245076
ISBN 13 
9789810245078
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
176
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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